Community action service agencies · Alabama

Tuscaloosa Head Start Center

Tuscaloosa, AL · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tuscaloosa Head Start Center runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Community action service agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

Tuscaloosa Head Start Center: 5.5 TCR = 146% of Community action service agencies BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tuscaloosa Head Start Center safety composite

Tuscaloosa Head Start Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Tuscaloosa Head Start Center: 4.6 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2017

Tuscaloosa Head Start Center's TCR rose 1.8 from 4.6 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624190 · Tuscaloosa, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 146% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Community Foundation…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tuscaloosa Head Start Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tuscaloosa Head Start Center averages 5.5 TCR (146% 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

Tuscaloosa Head Start Center TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=6.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Tuscaloosa Head Start Center falls in its industry

990 Community action service agenc establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Community action service agenc employers in Alabama.

Tuscaloosa Head Start Center (42 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Tuscaloosa Head Start Center
Tuscaloosa Head Start Center (42 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Tuscaloosa Head Start Center has fewer employees than the Community action service agencies median and a higher 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
2017 6.5 6.5 1 0 0
2016 4.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624190 · AL · Tuscaloosa

990 Community action service agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 151 employers in Tuscaloosa, AL · 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 Community Foundation for Southern Arizona 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MSC Federal Way 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HATEDU-CARES-6752 HWY 98 W 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ReEntry House Crisis 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Troy Hatchery 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Division Auburn Crew Headquarters 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscaloosa Operations Center 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE LEE BUILDERS, INC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phifer Kauloosa 1,419 FTE
CITY-NEAR BFG3 Tuscaloosa Facility 1,340 FTE
CITY-NEAR McAbee Construction Inc 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tuscaloosa Processing 526 FTE
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 0853 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewistown (Palew) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Greensboro Hub (Ncgre) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrington (Demil) 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avanti Wind Systems, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE WSW 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Bethany Inc 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ottawa Cooperative Association 42 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: 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.