Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · California

City of Bakersfield Police Department

Bakersfield, CA · ~630 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Bakersfield Police Department runs at 752% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Bakersfield Police Department: 24.1 TCR = 752% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Bakersfield Police Department safety composite

City of Bakersfield Police Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 30% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

12/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 1% 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

−5.1

2017→2024

City of Bakersfield Police Department injury rate improved

City of Bakersfield Police Department's TCR fell 5.1 from 19.9 in 2017 to 14.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 34.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=19.9 · 2018=22.0 · 2019=22.9 · 2020=30.7 · 2021=34.6 · 2022=28.5 · 2023=18.9 · 2024=14.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 24.1 · 752% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #84/97
  • PHOTO City Of Sacramento-O…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 901 inj
  • SIZE ~630 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City Of Sacramento-Office Of Operations Roll-Up (110015) (0.1 TCR gap)

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City of Bakersfield Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Bakersfield Police Department averages 24.1 TCR (752% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Bakersfield Police Department TCR series: 2017=19.9 · 2018=22 · 2019=22.9 · 2020=30.7 · 2021=34.6 · 2022=28.5 · 2023=18.9 · 2024=14.9 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Bakersfield Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #84 safest of 97 Police departments (except Ame employers in California.

City of Bakersfield Police Department (630 employees, TCR 24.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Bakersfield Police Department
City of Bakersfield Police Department (630 employees, TCR 24.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of Bakersfield Police Department has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 14.9 6.6 106 25 0
2023 18.9 10.5 123 38 0
2022 28.5 20.6 111 84 0
2021 34.6 24.3 132 88 0
2020 30.7 23.0 103 79 0
2019 22.9 13.4 123 5 1
2018 22.0 10.2 104 13 0
2017 19.9 11.8 99 4 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CA · Bakersfield

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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 City Of Sacramento-Office Of Operations Roll-Up (110015) 24.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belvidere Police Department 23.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCSD Inmate Services Division - Food Services 24.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City Of Meriden Police 23.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Whole Company - Power Plus! 630 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kite Pharma, Inc. 630 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA - Adidas (Bloomington) 630 FTE
STATE-SIZE Proctor and Gamble WCMC 630 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 Bullitt County Ems 24.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Taylor & Fenn Company 24.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Gaines Health and Rehab 24.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Traditions of Wayland 24.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ATA 630 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Puerto Rico, Inc. 630 FTE
NAT-SIZE Master Klean Janitorial, INC 630 FTE
NAT-SIZE PECO Foods West Point 630 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.