Child welfare services · California

New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs

San Diego, CA · ~66 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Child welfare services workplace, earning a grade F.

New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs: 7.6 TCR = 200% of Child welfare services BLS 3.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs safety composite

New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.1

2018→2024

New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs injury rate improved

New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs's TCR fell 2.1 from 11.7 in 2018 to 9.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.7 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=8.0 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=15.1 · 2024=9.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624110 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 200% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #44/53
  • PHOTO Lutheran Child and F…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lutheran Child and Family Services - Mount Vernon (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs averages 7.6 TCR (200% 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 - Tbs TCR series: 2018=11.7 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=8 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=15.1 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 3.8

Where New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs falls in its industry

328 Child welfare services establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #44 safest of 53 Child welfare services employers in California.

New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs (66 employees, TCR 7.6) 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 - Tbs
New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs (66 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3

New Alternatives, Inc - Tbs has more employees than the Child welfare services median and a higher 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 9.6 3.2 3 0 0
2023 15.1 9.1 5 0 0
2022 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2020 8.0 3.2 5 0 0
2019 2.9 1.4 2 0 0
2018 11.7 3.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624110 · CA · San Diego

328 Child welfare services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 Lutheran Child and Family Services - Mount Vernon 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR STARS/ICARE 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crisis Nursery 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nuseed Americas, Inc., West Sacramento Innovation Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORGANIC BUNCH HARVESTING 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Navco Berry Harvest 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE kings orchards, llc 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Precision Mastermade Paints, Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CES-Phoenix 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lockport Township Park District 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Plastic Products Co., Inc. - Lindstrom, MN 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Smg Kulpsville LLC 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Certified Fireproofing, Inc. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE September Ends Co 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kitchen Fabricating Equipment - Counter Craft 66 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.