General Medical and Surgical Hospitals · California

64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield

Bakersfield, CA · ~1,316 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General Medical and Surgical Hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield: 4.7 TCR = 63% of General Medical and Surgical Hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield safety composite

64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2023→2024

64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield injury rate improved

64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield's TCR fell 1.2 from 5.3 in 2023 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.3 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 4.7 · 63% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #159/662
  • PHOTO Freeman Health System
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 98 inj
  • SIZE ~1,316 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Freeman Health System (0.0 TCR gap)

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64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield averages 4.7 TCR (63% of the General Medical and Surgical Hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield TCR series: 2023=5.3 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 7.5

Where 64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield falls in its industry

6,862 General Medical and Surgical H establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #159 safest of 662 General Medical and Surgical H employers in California.

64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield (1,316 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield
64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield (1,316 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

64030322-322001 Mercy Hospital-Bakersfield has more employees than the General Medical and Surgical Hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2024 4.2 2.7 43 2 0
2023 5.3 2.3 55 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CA · Bakersfield

6,862 General Medical and Surgical Hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 818 employers in Bakersfield, 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 Freeman Health System 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WellStar North Fulton Hospital 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GEISINGER JERSEY SHORE HOSPITAL 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monongalia General Hospital 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mondelez Global Pacific Mountain - Sales 1,315 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pixar Animation Studios 1,317 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 405 1,319 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs 1,320 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Bakersfield 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-04 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL1 4,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Esparza Enterprises, Inc 3,267 FTE
NAT-TCR The Waterford at Ironbridge 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hajoca 741 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Griffin Lumber Company 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Vergent Products 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hanesbrands Oak Summit Corporate Office 1,316 FTE
NAT-SIZE JE Richards, Inc. 1,316 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stericycle - Bannockburn,IL-REMOTE 1,316 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cornelia Plant 1,316 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.