Mixed mode transit systems (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) · California

Golden Empire Transit District

Bakersfield, CA · ~337 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Golden Empire Transit District runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mixed mode transit systems (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) workplace, earning a grade D.

Golden Empire Transit District: 8.1 TCR = 179% of Mixed mode transit systems (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Golden Empire Transit District safety composite

Golden Empire Transit District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Golden Empire Transit District: 4.3 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2022

Golden Empire Transit District's TCR rose 5.2 from 4.3 in 2017 to 9.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485111 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.1 · 179% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #45/75
  • PHOTO 1953-2241
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 145 inj
  • SIZE ~337 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1953-2241 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Golden Empire Transit District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Golden Empire Transit District averages 8.1 TCR (179% of the Mixed mode transit systems (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) BLS benchmark).

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

Golden Empire Transit District TCR series: 2017=4.3 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=9.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Golden Empire Transit District falls in its industry

421 Mixed mode transit systems (e. establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 75 Mixed mode transit systems (e. employers in California.

Golden Empire Transit District (337 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Golden Empire Transit District
Golden Empire Transit District (337 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Golden Empire Transit District has more employees than the Mixed mode transit systems (e.g., bus, c median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2022 9.6 7.7 28 2 0
2021 9.4 6.7 25 6 0
2020 10.5 8.1 29 6 0
2019 7.1 5.0 23 4 0
2018 7.4 3.1 25 1 0
2017 4.3 4.1 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485111 · CA · Bakersfield

421 Mixed mode transit systems (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) 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 1953-2241 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ruby Junction 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilmer, TX - Miller Ferry Road 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Center Street Operations - Operations 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE KG Berry Farms LLC 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grimmius Cattle Company, Inc. - East Ranch 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Labor Contracting Service 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTSIDE AG ll, INC 337 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 Barku Plastics, LLC. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 0539 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Van Gorp Corporation 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Goose Creek 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Zumbiel Packaging 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Expo Group -1148 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Pharmaceuticals Inc 337 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: 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.