Blood banks · California

Houchin Community Blood Bank

Bakersfield, CA · ~97 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houchin Community Blood Bank runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Blood banks workplace, earning a grade A.

Houchin Community Blood Bank: 1.7 TCR = 44% of Blood banks BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houchin Community Blood Bank safety composite

Houchin Community Blood Bank scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Houchin Community Blood Bank: 0.0 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2020

Houchin Community Blood Bank's TCR rose 3.4 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 44% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #9/82
  • PHOTO National City 10297
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: National City 10297 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houchin Community Blood Bank in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houchin Community Blood Bank averages 1.7 TCR (44% of the Blood banks BLS benchmark).

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

Houchin Community Blood Bank TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=3.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Houchin Community Blood Bank falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banks establishments

Safer than 86% 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 #9 safest of 82 Blood banks employers in California.

Houchin Community Blood Bank (97 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Houchin Community Blood Bank
Houchin Community Blood Bank (97 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Houchin Community Blood Bank has more employees than the Blood banks 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
2020 3.4 1.1 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · CA · Bakersfield

1,713 Blood banks 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 National City 10297 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mechanicsburg 10171 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cleveland Cord Blood Center 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ImmunoTek Bio Centers,LLC - Jackson 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grapeman Farms 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Varsity Packing, Inc 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westland Floral Company Carpinteria, Inc. 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE LOS ANGELES RESERVOIR 97 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 RIL - Residence Inn Landfall 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn Uptown Charlotte 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rest Haven Homes 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Calacci Construction Company, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Insource Performance Solutions at Lowes Garysburg 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albion, MI 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwest Irrigation, LLC 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magnolia Health and Rehab 97 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: 2020, 2019. 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.