Commercial building construction · California

Bernards Builders

San Fernando, CA · ~280 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bernards Builders runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial building construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Bernards Builders: 0.8 TCR = 28% of Commercial building construction BLS 2.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bernards Builders safety composite

Bernards Builders scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

Bernards Builders: 0.5 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2018

Bernards Builders's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.5 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · San Fernando, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #67/486
  • PHOTO The Weitz Company, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~280 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Weitz Company, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bernards Builders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bernards Builders averages 0.8 TCR (28% of the Commercial building construction BLS benchmark).

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

Bernards Builders TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2018=1.1 · BLS 2.9

Where Bernards Builders falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 486 Commercial building constructi employers in California.

Bernards Builders (280 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Bernards Builders
Bernards Builders (280 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Bernards Builders has more employees than the Commercial building construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2018 1.1 0.4 3 0 0
2016 0.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · CA · San Fernando

4,692 Commercial building construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 48 employers in San Fernando, 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 The Weitz Company, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mascaro Construction Company, L.P. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHASCO CONSTRUCTORS 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rycon Construction, Inc - Fort Lauderdale 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm Labor Contractor 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&G FARMING, INC. 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Calpine Geysers 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ghilotti Bros., Inc. 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pharmavite, LLC 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bernards 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pharmavite - San Fernando 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bernards Bros 323 FTE
NAT-TCR Schneider Electric USA 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NatureScapes 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Meherrin Chemical - Severn 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Marietta 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Koppel 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nashville NAS 1 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital of San Antonio 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mills Pond Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 280 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.