Social workers' , mental health, offices (e.g., centers, clinics) · Vermont

Howard Center Inc

Burlington, VT · ~1,483 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard Center Inc runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Social workers' , mental health, offices (e.g., centers, clinics) workplace, earning a grade D.

Howard Center Inc: 6.0 TCR = 157% of Social workers' , mental health, offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard Center Inc safety composite

Howard Center Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Howard Center Inc: 5.5 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2017

Howard Center Inc's TCR rose 1.0 from 5.5 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621330 · Burlington, VT ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 157% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK P37
  • PHOTO Navos
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 92 inj
  • SIZE ~1,483 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Navos (0.1 TCR gap)

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Howard Center Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Howard Center Inc averages 6.0 TCR (157% of the Social workers' , mental health, offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Howard Center Inc TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=6.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Howard Center Inc falls in its industry

137 Social workers' , mental healt establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Howard Center Inc (1,483 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Howard Center Inc
Howard Center Inc (1,483 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Howard Center Inc has more employees than the Social workers' , mental health, offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2017 6.5 3.7 51 15 0
2016 5.5 2.8 41 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621330 · VT · Burlington

137 Social workers' , mental health, offices (e.g., centers, clinics) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 96 employers in Burlington, VT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Navos 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Oaks Health 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BII PA Horsham 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brandon West FL 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Supply Chain : Rutland, VT 1,176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supply Chain Rutland VT 1,163 FTE
STATE-SIZE GlobalFoundries - Burlington 1,821 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Vermont Medical Center 1,086 FTE
CITY-NEAR 102 South Winooski 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1138 Pine 452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burton Corporation 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greater Burlington YMCA 405 FTE
NAT-TCR AKA Tree Removal 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 507 ABC Supply Co., Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dartmouth (Madar) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Peru (Ilper) 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE TX - Verizon CRTC/Bldg 17 1,483 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital 1,483 FTE
NAT-SIZE McKenney's, Inc. 1,483 FTE
NAT-SIZE Circa 1,483 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.