Farm labor contractors · California

A & R Contracting

Bakersfield, CA · ~90 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A & R Contracting runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

A & R Contracting: 2.2 TCR = 50% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A & R Contracting safety composite

A & R Contracting scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

A & R Contracting: 0.0 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.98× in 2024

A & R Contracting's TCR rose 6.7 from 0.0 in 2019 to 6.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 50% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #153/620
  • PHOTO Bella Vineyard Ag Se…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bella Vineyard Ag Services, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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A & R Contracting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A & R Contracting averages 2.2 TCR (50% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

A & R Contracting TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 4.5

Where A & R Contracting falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #153 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

A & R Contracting (90 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate A & R Contracting
A & R Contracting (90 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

A & R Contracting has fewer employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 6.7 6.7 1 1 0
2023 4.5 4.5 0 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Bakersfield

836 Farm labor contractors 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 Bella Vineyard Ag Services, Inc 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CORONADO LABOR CONTRACTING, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kern Ag Services Inc 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alico Citrus 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Davis West Research Station 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland America Flowers, LLC 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hettinga - California 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lowell Farms - Spence Facility 90 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 Woodward Iodine Corporation 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR IKO Northeast 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaw Valley Companies, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sam's Town Hotel Gambling Hall 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE S.E. Cooperative Service co 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roll-Lift USA, Inc. 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kelleher Construction, Inc 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Equistar Chemicals, LP - Mansfield 90 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, 2022, 2020, 2019. 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.