Plumbers · California

HPS Mechanical Inc

Bakersfield, CA · ~219 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HPS Mechanical Inc runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plumbers workplace, earning a grade C.

HPS Mechanical Inc: 2.3 TCR = 82% of Plumbers BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HPS Mechanical Inc safety composite

HPS Mechanical Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

HPS Mechanical Inc held a steady TCR band

HPS Mechanical Inc's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.7 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.7 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.2 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #180/594
  • PHOTO Mechanical Services …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mechanical Services of Central Florida, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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HPS Mechanical Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HPS Mechanical Inc averages 2.3 TCR (82% of the Plumbers BLS benchmark).

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

HPS Mechanical Inc TCR series: 2017=0.7 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.2 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.8

Where HPS Mechanical Inc falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbers establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #180 safest of 594 Plumbers employers in California.

HPS Mechanical Inc (219 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate HPS Mechanical Inc
HPS Mechanical Inc (219 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

HPS Mechanical Inc has more employees than the Plumbers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 0.9 0.0 2 0 0
2023 2.8 1.9 6 0 0
2022 5.8 2.2 13 0 0
2021 2.4 1.4 5 0 0
2019 2.2 1.6 4 0 0
2018 1.1 0.6 2 0 0
2017 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Bakersfield

5,793 Plumbers 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 Mechanical Services of Central Florida, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burns Bros Contractors LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brigade Fire Solution , LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SE&M Constructors 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gilroy Location 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mellano & Company dba Mellano Enterprises SLR 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Garlic Company 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Statewide Labor Corporation 219 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 Ame, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR OH - General Dynamics 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JAG Healthcare Harding 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- New Orleans Terminal 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big 4 Erectors, L.P. 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE JSB Industries Chelsea 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Southern New Hampshire Univ 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE S03789 - WM of Orlando 219 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.