Group foster homes for children · California

New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa

Costa Mesa, CA · ~20 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa runs at 231% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Group foster homes for children workplace, earning a grade F.

New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa: 8.8 TCR = 231% of Group foster homes for children BLS 3.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa safety composite

New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa held a steady TCR band

New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 25.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=20.2 · 2021=25.2 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623990 · Costa Mesa, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 231% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #65/91
  • PHOTO Bayside Group Home (…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bayside Group Home (171) (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa averages 8.8 TCR (231% of the Group foster homes for children BLS benchmark).

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

New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=20.2 · 2021=25.2 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.8

Where New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa falls in its industry

560 Group foster homes for childre establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 91 Group foster homes for childre employers in California.

New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa (20 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa
New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa (20 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 6.4

New Alternatives, Inc - Costa Mesa has fewer employees than the Group foster homes for children median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 7.8 7.8 1 0 0
2021 25.2 15.1 5 0 0
2020 20.2 12.1 5 0 0
2019 8.3 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623990 · CA · Costa Mesa

560 Group foster homes for children employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 185 employers in Costa Mesa, CA · 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 Bayside Group Home (171) 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rawhide Inc 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monroe Ave Campus 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 554178 101240_CCS FINANCE OPERATIONS_1050 REED 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sills Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALMEX CONTRACTING INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Antler Ranch LLC 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACIFIC AMPHITHEATER 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR OC Fair & Event Center 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Costa Mesa 670 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACWEST Security Services 567 FTE
NAT-TCR Cottage Grove Place 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TXS025 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jifram 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Franciscan Health Mooresville 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt Laurel LLC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bhavi Motel LLC - Pennsylvania 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riya Hotels LLC 20 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.