Industry profile · NAICS 624410

Child day care centers

Workplace injury rates across 335 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

335
Employers
6.4
Avg TCR
3.8
BLS benchmark
2,466
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Child day care centers average 6.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.7 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.8.

6.4
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.8
BLS national benchmark
335
employers reporting
2,466
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Child day care centers Safety Data Reveals

The Child day care centers sector (NAICS 624410) encompasses 335 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 2,466 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.8 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 6.4 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Child day care centers that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
SwedishAmerican Health System-Ryan Jury Rockford, IL B 2.7
Towaco Towaco, NJ B 2.7
New Horizon Academy #77 Sartell, MN B 2.7
McElveen Child Development Center Greensboro, NC B 2.6
New Horizon Academy #43 Maple Grove, MN B 2.6
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus Columbus, OH B 2.6
Parccenter Preschool Mahopac, NY B 2.6
Administration Milwaukee, WI B 2.6
Kids Care Beaver Dam, WI B 2.6
Rosa Parks Dayton, OH B 2.5
071702 Kindercare Vadnais Heights, MN B 2.5
LIFESPAN-ALLENTOWN Allentown, PA B 2.5
La Causa, Inc. Milwaukee, WI B 2.5
Intrepid Staffing San Antonio, TX B 2.4
New Horizon Academy #4005 Erie, CO B 2.4
ECE Administrative Staff Albuquerque, NM B 2.4
Fenley - HS San Antonio, TX B 2.4
YMCA Prince George's County Bowie, MD B 2.4
Carole Robertson Center for Learning -2929 Chicago, IL B 2.4
Douglaston Douglaston, NY B 2.3
Parkside at Dr King School and HWS Syracuse, NY B 2.3
Easter Seals North Georgia, Inc. - Sylvan Hills Center Atlanta, GA B 2.2
302015 Kindercare Woodbury, MN B 2.2
New Haven Board of Education - Dr. Reginald Mayo ECLC New Haven, CT B 2.2
301997 Kindercare Prior Lake, MN B 2.1
Lifespan East Greenville East Greenville, PA B 2.1
Elm Street Child Development Center Greensboro, NC B 2.1
Marilyn E Thomas Center Trotwood, OH B 2.1
Boys & Girls Clubs Oklahoma County Oklahoma City, OK B 2.0
Kinderberry Hill #08 St. Paul, MN B 2.0
The West Center Phila, PA B 2.0
Freeborn County Albert Lea, MN B 1.9
301503 Kindercare Eagan, MN B 1.9
The Learning Tree - Howell Howell, MI A 1.9
Fritz Burns Los Angeles, CA A 1.8
Genesis Childrens Center Zanesville, OH A 1.8
Pacific Life Foundation Branch Huntington Beach, CA A 1.8
Carole Robertson Center for Learning - 5101 Chicago, IL A 1.8
The Learning Tree Child Care Center North Livonia, MI A 1.8
Poplar Grove Child Development Center Greensboro, NC A 1.8
New Horizon Kids Quest Corporate Office Plymouth, MN A 1.7
301953 Kindercare Champlin, MN A 1.6
Early LIFE Center 14 New York, NY A 1.6
Apple Lane Austin, MN A 1.6
74th St. Preschool Fort Smith, AR A 1.6
Community Coordinated Care for Children, Inc. Orlando, FL A 1.5
YMCA Loudoun County Leesburg, VA A 1.5
Diablo Valley Montessori School Lafayette, CA A 1.5
MODA Tower YMCA Child Development Center Portland, OR A 1.5
The Learning Tree - North Livonia, MI A 1.4
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This sector averages 6.4 against a BLS benchmark of 3.8 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

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.