Child welfare services · California

Optimist Van Nuys

Van Nuys, CA · ~29 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Optimist Van Nuys runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Child welfare services workplace, earning a grade D.

Optimist Van Nuys: 5.3 TCR = 139% of Child welfare services BLS 3.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Optimist Van Nuys safety composite

Optimist Van Nuys scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−11.5

2017→2024

Optimist Van Nuys injury rate improved

Optimist Van Nuys's TCR fell 11.5 from 11.5 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.5 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=11.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624110 · Van Nuys, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 139% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #32/53
  • PHOTO The Boys and Girls C…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Boys and Girls Club of Central Florida (0.0 TCR gap)

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Optimist Van Nuys in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Optimist Van Nuys averages 5.3 TCR (139% of the Child welfare services BLS benchmark).

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

Optimist Van Nuys TCR series: 2017=11.5 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=11.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.8

Where Optimist Van Nuys falls in its industry

328 Child welfare services establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #32 safest of 53 Child welfare services employers in California.

Optimist Van Nuys (29 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Optimist Van Nuys
Optimist Van Nuys (29 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Optimist Van Nuys has fewer 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 11.2 11.2 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 9.1 9.1 1 0 0
2017 11.5 11.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624110 · CA · Van Nuys

328 Child welfare services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 192 employers in Van Nuys, 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 The Boys and Girls Club of Central Florida 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Programs 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morrison child and family services Washington Co. office 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Child Support Enforcement - High Point 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sean V. Doherty Farms 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blanco Farms, LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT SHOP 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cottonwood Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Presbyterian Hospital 1,686 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-048 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-063 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR VAN NUYS HUB (CAVAN) 864 FTE
NAT-TCR 604ROC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Airtech Products, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Mellen Company, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JHI Group / Janotta & Herner 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Radcliff Wire Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Look Siding 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merrimac Spool & Reel 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens Industries, Inc. 29 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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