wood preserving · California

Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield

Bakersfield, CA · ~40 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical wood preserving workplace, earning a grade D.

Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield: 4.0 TCR = 121% of wood preserving BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield safety composite

Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.6

2017→2024

Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield injury rate improved

Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield's TCR fell 7.6 from 9.8 in 2017 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321114 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Baldwin Pole Mississ…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baldwin Pole Mississippi LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the wood preserving BLS benchmark).

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

Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield TCR series: 2017=9.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield falls in its industry

183 wood preserving establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 wood preserving employers in California.

Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield (40 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield
Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield (40 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield has fewer employees than the wood preserving median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2021 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2020 7.6 5.1 3 0 0
2019 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 9.8 9.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321114 · CA · Bakersfield

183 wood preserving 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 Baldwin Pole Mississippi LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koppers Leland 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Southern Wood - Greenbush Wood Products 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koppers Guthrie 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 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 Aberdeen Road Company 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Rapids Clinic 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR S03327 - Phoenix Hauling South 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR National Plastek, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Port Washington Generating Station 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Koch Metal 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pender Nursery Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Yakima 40 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, 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.