Adoption services, child · Kansas

Wichita Children's Home

Wichita, KS · ~152 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wichita Children's Home runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Adoption services, child workplace, earning a grade D.

Wichita Children's Home: 5.0 TCR = 130% of Adoption services, child BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wichita Children's Home safety composite

Wichita Children's Home scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Wichita Children's Home: 3.0 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2022

Wichita Children's Home's TCR rose 1.6 from 3.0 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624110 · Wichita, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 130% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #13/16
  • PHOTO Lutheran Child and F…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lutheran Child and Family Services - Joliet (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wichita Children's Home in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wichita Children's Home averages 5.0 TCR (130% of the Adoption services, child BLS benchmark).

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

Wichita Children's Home TCR series: 2016=3 · 2018=5.7 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=4.7 · BLS 3.8

Where Wichita Children's Home falls in its industry

328 Adoption services, child establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 16 Adoption services, child employers in Kansas.

Wichita Children's Home (152 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Wichita Children's Home
Wichita Children's Home (152 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Wichita Children's Home has more employees than the Adoption services, child 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
2022 4.7 1.6 6 0 0
2021 6.1 0.8 8 0 0
2020 5.3 2.3 7 0 0
2018 5.7 0.0 7 0 0
2016 3.0 2.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624110 · KS · Wichita

328 Adoption services, child employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, KS · 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 Lutheran Child and Family Services - Joliet 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holland 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zach Gordon Youth Center 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEW ALTERANTIVES, INC - INFA 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ellsworth 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cosmic Pet 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0721 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE 615-00096 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR County Market #244 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarion Laminates LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Flexsteel Commercial Office 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HomTex, Inc. Corporate 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE The SYGMA Network 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #458 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coating Place, Inc. 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE VFS Fire & Security Services 152 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 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.