Fire prevention offices, government · California

Fire Dept

Bakersfield, CA · ~701 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality

The verdict

Fire Dept runs at 381% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire prevention offices, government workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.2
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
1
worker fatalities on record

Grade compares Fire Dept's OSHA Total Case Rate of 12.2 to the Fire prevention offices, government BLS benchmark of 3.2 (381% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Fire Dept's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.2 industry benchmark.

0510152025 2017201820192020202120222023 8.23.2 Industry benchmarkFire Dept TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 922160.

Where Fire Dept falls in its industry

1,057 Fire prevention offices, gover establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 90 Fire prevention offices, gover employers in California.

Trend analysis for Fire Dept

Between 2017 and 2023, Fire Dept's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 8.2 to 8.2 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 0% increase across 6 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 7.1, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 22.6, a spread of 15.5 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 7 reporting years, Fire Dept recorded 508 total injuries and illnesses and 1 fatality. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 508 injuries, 491 illnesses, and 1 fatality shown on this page for Fire Dept are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 922160 - Fire prevention offices, government.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

54 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 2,447,888 hours worked = 4.41 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Fire Dept (this establishment) 12.20 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg
Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) industry avg 3.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 922160
California state avg (all industries) 5.64 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Fire Dept to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 8.2 4.4 65 35 0
2022 22.6 17.0 100 171 1
2021 19.3 14.2 74 138 0
2020 12.6 9.1 62 81 0
2019 7.5 2.5 69 17 0
2018 7.1 2.9 75 10 0
2017 8.2 2.4 63 39 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Fire Dept's reported OSHA injury record versus its Fire prevention offices, government peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 381% of the Fire prevention offices, government benchmark, Fire Dept reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Fire prevention offices, government sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Fire Dept's safety grade?
Fire Dept has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 12.2 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.2 for Fire prevention offices, government.
How many injuries has Fire Dept reported?
Fire Dept has reported 508 total injuries and 1 fatalities across 7 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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Matched by safety record across the industry, by workforce size within California, and by nearby establishments in Bakersfield - a different peer set than the category browse links below.

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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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.