Crop Preparation Services for Market, Except Cotton Ginning · California

H.B. Ag, Inc.

Bakersfield, CA · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

H.B. Ag, Inc. runs at 635% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Crop Preparation Services for Market, Except Cotton Ginning workplace, earning a grade F.

H.B. Ag, Inc.: 14.0 TCR = 635% of Crop Preparation Services for Market, Except Cotton Ginning BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

H.B. Ag, Inc. safety composite

H.B. Ag, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 23.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

H.B. Ag, Inc.: 4.0 → 23.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 23.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.71× in 2019

H.B. Ag, Inc.'s TCR rose 19.9 from 4.0 in 2018 to 23.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.0 · 635% of ind

  • DART 23.9 DART
  • RANK #135/136
  • PHOTO Caledonia
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Caledonia (0.2 TCR gap)

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H.B. Ag, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows H.B. Ag, Inc. averages 14.0 TCR (635% of the Crop Preparation Services for Market, Except Cotton Ginning BLS benchmark).

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

H.B. Ag, Inc. TCR series: 2018=4 · 2019=23.9 · BLS 2.2

Where H.B. Ag, Inc. falls in its industry

1,202 Crop Preparation Services for establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #135 safest of 136 Crop Preparation Services for employers in California.

H.B. Ag, Inc. (30 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate H.B. Ag, Inc.
H.B. Ag, Inc. (30 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

H.B. Ag, Inc. has more employees than the Crop Preparation Services for Market, Ex median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2019 23.9 23.9 4 0 0
2018 4.0 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · CA · Bakersfield

1,202 Crop Preparation Services for Market, Except Cotton Ginning 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 Caledonia 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR QC Supply - Livermore, KY 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEW Cooperative Inc. - Pierson 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transchemical Inc 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE BZNUR 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1780 San Juan Rd. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charter Oaks 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfields Turf, Inc. 30 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 Trumbull Country Club Food & Beverage (Warre** 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkville, Mo - Hs 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ambassador 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Village of Carol Stream 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Edison, NJ (NY District Staff) 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henges Insulation and Fireplaces 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vortex Turnkey Solutions LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE MRP Spokane, LLC 30 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: 2019, 2018. 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.