Community action service agencies · California

Shields for Families, Inc

Lynwood, CA · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shields for Families, Inc runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Community action service agencies workplace, earning a grade A.

Shields for Families, Inc: 1.4 TCR = 37% of Community action service agencies BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shields for Families, Inc safety composite

Shields for Families, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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)
B 1.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Shields for Families, Inc: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2021

Shields for Families, Inc's TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624190 · Lynwood, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 37% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #52/184
  • PHOTO River Valley Counsel…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: River Valley Counseling Center, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shields for Families, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shields for Families, Inc averages 1.4 TCR (37% of the Community action service agencies BLS benchmark).

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

Shields for Families, Inc TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=2.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Shields for Families, Inc falls in its industry

990 Community action service agenc establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 184 Community action service agenc employers in California.

Shields for Families, Inc (46 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Shields for Families, Inc
Shields for Families, Inc (46 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shields for Families, Inc has fewer employees than the Community action service agencies median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2021 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624190 · CA · Lynwood

990 Community action service agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 52 employers in Lynwood, 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 River Valley Counseling Center, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Department of Social Services - High Point 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roseburg Harvard ODHS 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTH SIDE YMCA 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matteoli Brothers 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE IMR Farms-San Miguel 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Berry Farms 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitigliano Farm Services, Inc. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0010-00100008 1,965 FTE
CITY-NEAR PL Developments 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jones Wholesale Lumber Company, Inc. 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Lynwood 165 FTE
NAT-TCR Carl Zeiss Vision Inc. - Clackamas OR 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Company Bartow 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlantic Intercoastal Water Way 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TDManufacturing 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bardstown, KY 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Afa Ma Branch 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burrows Tractor - Yakima 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mac Metal Products of Wi, Inc. 46 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: 2021, 2020. 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.