Legal counsel offices, government · California

County Counsel

Bakersfield, CA · ~73 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

County Counsel runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Legal counsel offices, government workplace, earning a grade D.

County Counsel: 5.3 TCR = 165% of Legal counsel offices, government BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

County Counsel safety composite

County Counsel scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.7

2017→2023

County Counsel injury rate improved

County Counsel's TCR fell 12.7 from 12.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.7 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=5.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922130 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 165% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/32
  • PHOTO Public Defender 600
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Defender 600 (0.3 TCR gap)

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County Counsel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows County Counsel averages 5.3 TCR (165% of the Legal counsel offices, government BLS benchmark).

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

County Counsel TCR series: 2017=12.7 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=3 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=5 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.2

Where County Counsel falls in its industry

92 Legal counsel offices, governm establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 32 Legal counsel offices, governm employers in California.

County Counsel (73 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate County Counsel
County Counsel (73 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2

County Counsel has more employees than the Legal counsel offices, government median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.0 3.3 2 1 0
2021 4.8 3.2 3 0 0
2020 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2019 4.8 1.6 2 1 0
2018 6.7 5.0 1 3 0
2017 12.7 1.6 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922130 · CA · Bakersfield

92 Legal counsel offices, government 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 Public Defender 600 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR District Attorney 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Defender Lamoreaux 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR District Attorney's Office 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Columbia 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Location 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE P-R Farms Inc/Palomate Inc 73 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 Kwik Fill S012/231 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR FBX_BWS_AV_SD 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4400 - Columbia, SC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Northeast Asphalt, Inc. - Appleton/Trans./QC/Mfg. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Regency Management, Inc. 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc. 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE DK Manufacturing, Inc. - Lancaster 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omnium - Hampton, IA 73 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: 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.