Home health care agencies · Michigan

Personal Assistance - Alpena

Alpena, MI · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Personal Assistance - Alpena runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

Personal Assistance - Alpena: 8.0 TCR = 154% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Personal Assistance - Alpena safety composite

Personal Assistance - Alpena scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−0.9

2016→2019

Personal Assistance - Alpena injury rate improved

Personal Assistance - Alpena's TCR fell 0.9 from 8.1 in 2016 to 7.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.1 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=16.7 · 2019=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Alpena, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 154% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #87/113
  • PHOTO HC greater New Orleans
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HC greater New Orleans (0.0 TCR gap)

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Personal Assistance - Alpena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Personal Assistance - Alpena averages 8.0 TCR (154% of the Home health care agencies BLS benchmark).

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

Personal Assistance - Alpena TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=16.7 · 2019=7.2 · BLS 5.2

Where Personal Assistance - Alpena falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #87 safest of 113 Home health care agencies employers in Michigan.

Personal Assistance - Alpena (21 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Personal Assistance - Alpena
Personal Assistance - Alpena (21 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Personal Assistance - Alpena has fewer employees than the Home health care agencies median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2019 7.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 16.7 8.3 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.1 8.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · MI · Alpena

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 59 employers in Alpena, MI · 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 HC greater New Orleans 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1104 - SSJ 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Compassus - Bay City Saginaw 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Compassionate Care Hospice of East Stroudburg 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms Sturgis 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE BE Cultivation 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4605_15228 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willard DeHaan & Son Grnhs 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR MidMichigan Medical Center - Alpena 857 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast MI Community Mental Health Authority 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2358 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2358 299 FTE
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 0993 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amick Farms, LLC Processing Plant 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR F/V Seattle Enterprise 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kentuckiana's Premier Truck Center-Indiana 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clearwater/Dunedin 90-04-24-11 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salt Lake City, UT - Lincare 90-08-79-12 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 17-015 Southwest Regional WRF Exp 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE HDS-Indy 21 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.