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
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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.

Fire Dept: 12.2 TCR = 381% of Fire prevention offices, government BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Dept safety composite

Fire Dept scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 47% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 12.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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%).

Fire Dept held a steady TCR band

Fire Dept's TCR held near 0.0 from 8.2 in 2017 to 8.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 22.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.2 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=7.5 · 2020=12.6 · 2021=19.3 · 2022=22.6 · 2023=8.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.2 · 381% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #35/87
  • PHOTO Charlottesville - Fire
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 508 inj
  • SIZE ~701 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Charlottesville - Fire (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire Dept in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Dept averages 12.2 TCR (381% of the Fire prevention offices, government BLS benchmark).

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

Fire Dept TCR series: 2017=8.2 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=7.5 · 2020=12.6 · 2021=19.3 · 2022=22.6 · 2023=8.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Dept falls in its industry

793 Fire prevention offices, gover establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 87 Fire prevention offices, gover employers in California.

Fire Dept (701 employees, TCR 12.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 Fire Dept
Fire Dept (701 employees, TCR 12.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Dept has more employees than the Fire prevention offices, government median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CA · Bakersfield

793 Fire prevention 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 Charlottesville - Fire 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridgefield Fire Department 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station 209 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stratford Fire Department 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 404 701 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 406 701 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 409 701 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 416 701 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 Starling at Nocatee Independent Living 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR YESCO LLC - Reno, NV Establishment 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Plattsburgh Rehabilitation and Nursing Center 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Missouri River Medical Center 12.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE First Quality Products 701 FTE
NAT-SIZE Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital 701 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Tennessee Medical Center LLC 701 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheraton Vistana Resort 701 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.

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

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.