Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis · California

Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc.

Bakersfield, CA · ~219 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
1.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc. runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis workplace, earning a grade A.

Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc.: 0.6 TCR = 29% of Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis BLS 1.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc. safety composite

Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc.: 0.4 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.16× in 2024

Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 0.4 in 2020 to 1.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 213111 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 29% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Rig 1
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rig 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc. averages 0.6 TCR (29% of the Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis BLS benchmark).

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

Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc. TCR series: 2020=0.4 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 1.9

Where Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc. falls in its industry

171 Drilling gas and oil field wel establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Drilling gas and oil field wel employers in California.

Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc. (219 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 012345 Average employees Total Case Rate Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc.
Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc. (219 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc. has more employees than the Drilling gas and oil field wells on a co median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.2 0.6 4 0 0
2020 0.4 0.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

213111 · CA · Bakersfield

171 Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis 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 Rig 1 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lubbock Office 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0233 - HES Broussard 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cactus Drilling Rig 164 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gilroy Location 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mellano & Company dba Mellano Enterprises SLR 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Garlic Company 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Statewide Labor Corporation 219 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 USA Calhoun GA 450 Clarence King 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Clean Harbors Deer Park LLC 69DE 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ameriflight, LLC- Salt Lake City 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR VA - DuPont 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10587 Spring Lake Wall 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10062 Tenley Town 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10683 Commack 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Design Mechanical 219 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.