Child day care centers · Iowa

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start)

Waterloo, IA · ~85 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) runs at 339% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Child day care centers workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.9
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.8
industry benchmark (BLS)
22
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start)'s OSHA Total Case Rate of 12.9 to the Child day care centers BLS benchmark of 3.8 (339% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start)'s yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.8 industry benchmark.

051015 202020222023 11.83.8 Industry benchmarkTri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 624410.

Where Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) falls in its industry

338 Child day care centers establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Child day care centers employers in Iowa.

Trend analysis for Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start)

Between 2020 and 2023, Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start)'s Total Case Rate improved from 12.9 to 11.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 9% decrease across 3 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 11.8, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 13.9, a spread of 2.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 3 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.

Summed across those 3 reporting years, Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) recorded 22 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 22 injuries, 1 illnesses shown on this page for Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

Verify on OSHA Establishment Search

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 624410 - Child day care centers.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

8 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 135,302 hours worked = 11.83 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) (this establishment) 12.89 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg
Child day care centers industry avg 3.80 BLS IIF, NAICS 624410
Iowa state avg (all industries) 5.33 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 11.8 11.8 8 0 0
2022 13.9 13.9 8 0 0
2020 12.9 12.9 6 1 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start)'s reported OSHA injury record versus its Child day care centers peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 339% of the Child day care centers benchmark, Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Child day care centers sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start)'s safety grade?
Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 12.9 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.8 for Child day care centers.
How many injuries has Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) reported?
Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) has reported 22 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 3 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2020). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2023, 2022, 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.