Tow truck services · California

Golden Empire Towing, Inc.

Bakersfield, CA · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Golden Empire Towing, Inc. runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Tow truck services workplace, earning a grade A.

Golden Empire Towing, Inc.: 1.6 TCR = 36% of Tow truck services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Golden Empire Towing, Inc. safety composite

Golden Empire Towing, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Golden Empire Towing, Inc.: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2024

Golden Empire Towing, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488410 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 36% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #14/48
  • PHOTO Campbell's Towing Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Campbell's Towing Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Golden Empire Towing, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Golden Empire Towing, Inc. averages 1.6 TCR (36% of the Tow truck services BLS benchmark).

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

Golden Empire Towing, Inc. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Golden Empire Towing, Inc. falls in its industry

157 Tow truck services establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 48 Tow truck services employers in California.

Golden Empire Towing, Inc. (37 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Golden Empire Towing, Inc.
Golden Empire Towing, Inc. (37 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Golden Empire Towing, Inc. has fewer employees than the Tow truck services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488410 · CA · Bakersfield

157 Tow truck services 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 Campbell's Towing Inc 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moran Automotive & Towing 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1203 Lewis Blvd- Stockton Towing Inc. Sioux City 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Action Southland Towing 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE BULLSEYE FARMS LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE KP Spraying LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN - 01 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kimberlina Shop 37 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 Ken's Foods 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bales Construction Co Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Everlan Clemson, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Warde Medical Laboratory 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hd Excavations & Utilities LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE NG Resources 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE 066 Odessa 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Groton Public Library 37 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. 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.