Child welfare services · California

New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program

Santa Ana, CA · ~68 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Child welfare services workplace, earning a grade B.

New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program: 1.9 TCR = 51% of Child welfare services BLS 3.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program safety composite

New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624110 · Santa Ana, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 51% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #10/53
  • PHOTO Youth Health Service…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Youth Health Service Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program averages 1.9 TCR (51% of the Child welfare services BLS benchmark).

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

New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.8

Where New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program falls in its industry

328 Child welfare services establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 53 Child welfare services employers in California.

New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program (68 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program
New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program (68 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3

New Alternatives, Inc - Orange County Program has more employees than the Child welfare services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2023 6.5 3.2 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2019 2.8 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624110 · CA · Santa Ana

328 Child welfare services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 492 employers in Santa Ana, 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 Youth Health Service Inc 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arizona's Children Association 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MD074-YAPI-BALTIMORE COUNTY AP,MD074 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lutheran Child and Family Services - Decatur 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Valley Land Co. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCFFO 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE VinePro Vineyard Management, Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knights Grapevine Nursery 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Think Together 2,496 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Ana 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orange County/Los Angeles 1,072 FTE
CITY-NEAR 056937-SANTA ANA CA P&DC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Blenheim Management Company 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Physician Enterprise 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fastening Solutions - Montgomery 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR J Pettiecord Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Laubach Freight Agency, Inc 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acme Pallet 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Templeton Elementary 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Durham Elementary 68 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.