Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers · California

Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield)

Bakersfield, CA · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield) runs at 459% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield): 10.1 TCR = 459% of Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield) safety composite

Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield): 7.5 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2021

Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield)'s TCR rose 4.5 from 7.5 in 2019 to 12.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 459% of ind

  • DART 12.0 DART
  • RANK #89/96
  • PHOTO Truck Centers, Inc. …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Truck Centers, Inc. - Troy (0.1 TCR gap)

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Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield) averages 10.1 TCR (459% of the Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield) TCR series: 2019=7.5 · 2020=10.8 · 2021=12 · BLS 2.2

Where Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield) falls in its industry

1,333 Trucks, road, merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #89 safest of 96 Trucks, road, merchant wholesa employers in California.

Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield) (39 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield)
Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield) (39 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Central Valley GMC (Bakersfield) has fewer employees than the Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2021 12.0 12.0 4 0 0
2020 10.8 5.4 4 0 0
2019 7.5 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · CA · Bakersfield

1,333 Trucks, road, 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Truck Centers, Inc. - Troy 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peterbilt of Lincoln 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-States Utility Trailer Sales Sioux Falls 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minn-Dak Co. 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE San Felipe Farms 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schreiner Brothers Farms 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE TLC Custom Farming Company LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sonoma Valley Vineyards 39 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 Indus Trade and Technology LLC 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Odd Fellow - Rebekah Home #538 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Speyside Bourbon Stave Mill in Kentucky, Inc. 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ready Mix Concrete- Havelock 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE KB Home Raleigh-Durham Inc 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shellys - Telford Truss 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mansea Metal, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester FS (SSS, CSS) 39 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.