Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · California

Berchtold Equipment Company

Name: Berchtold Equipment Company Workplace Safety Data
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Bakersfield, CA · ~57 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Berchtold Equipment Company runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Berchtold Equipment Company: 2.8 TCR = 126% of Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berchtold Equipment Company safety composite

Berchtold Equipment Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Berchtold Equipment Company: 1.1 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Berchtold Equipment Company's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.1 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 126% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #8/27
PHOTO Blain Supply
BOOK 3y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blain Supply (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Berchtold Equipment Company averages 2.8 TCR (126% of the Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Berchtold Equipment Company TCR series: 2019=1.1 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=2.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Berchtold Equipment Company falls in its industry

700 Farm machinery and equipment m establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 27 Farm machinery and equipment m employers in California.

Berchtold Equipment Company (57 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Berchtold Equipment Company has more employees than the Farm machinery and equipment merchant wh median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2021	2.4	0.0	1
2020	4.9	2.4	2
2019	1.1	1.1	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · CA · Bakersfield

700 Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Blain Supply	JANESVILLE, WI	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ewald Kubota, Inc. Seguin	SEGUIN, TX	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Goldman Equipment, LLC - Alexandria	ALEXANDRIA, LA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Keel Street warehouse	PLYMOUTH, MI	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Bowles Farming Company	LOS BANOS	57 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Blanc Vineyards, LLC	DELANO	57 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MI RANCHITO FARMING INC	SANTA MARIA	57 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Farmland Management Services	TURLOCK	57 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CA Bakersfield	Bakersfield	4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CA-04	Bakersfield	4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL1	Bakersfield	4,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Esparza Enterprises, Inc	Bakersfield	3,267 FTE
NAT-TCR	Vermilion Healthcare Center	Kaplan, LA	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nissan of Leesburg	Leesburg, FL	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dixon Reporting Center	Dixon, IL	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Peoria Corn Plant	Peoria, IL	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Jacks Midland	Midland, MI	57 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Huntington Wv	Huntington, WV	57 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Richfield Municipal Center - Public Safety	Richfield, MN	57 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sam Rayburn Tollway West	The Colony, TX	57 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.