Shelters (except for victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts), emergency · California

Kensington

Lancaster, CA · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kensington runs at 401% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Shelters (except for victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts), emergency workplace, earning a grade F.

Kensington: 15.2 TCR = 401% of Shelters (except for victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts), emergency BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kensington safety composite

Kensington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Kensington: 11.2 → 19.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2024

Kensington's TCR rose 8.0 from 11.2 in 2023 to 19.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624221 · Lancaster, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.2 · 401% of ind

  • DART 17.9 DART
  • RANK #38/42
  • PHOTO City Rescue Mission
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City Rescue Mission (0.3 TCR gap)

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Kensington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kensington averages 15.2 TCR (401% of the Shelters (except for victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts), emergency BLS benchmark).

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

Kensington TCR series: 2023=11.2 · 2024=19.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Kensington falls in its industry

200 Shelters (except for victims o establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 42 Shelters (except for victims o employers in California.

Kensington (61 employees, TCR 15.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Kensington
Kensington (61 employees, TCR 15.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Kensington has fewer employees than the Shelters (except for victims of domestic median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 19.2 17.9 11 3 0
2023 11.2 11.2 3 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624221 · CA · Lancaster

200 Shelters (except for victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts), emergency employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 131 employers in Lancaster, 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 City Rescue Mission 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR N 5th Steet Shelter 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlos Lopez & Associates LLC, ABH 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra 18.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silveira Farms 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE La Brucherie Produce, LLC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olds Ranch 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1750 Production Office 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Antelope Valley Union High School District 3,219 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 549 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR California State Prison-Los Angeles County 1,505 FTE
CITY-NEAR BYD Coach & Bus LLC 679 FTE
NAT-TCR Talisman Construction Services, LLC. 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Verde Farms LLC 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Txmca - Mc Allen 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Department 15.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Andritz Iggesund Tools Inc 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Utah Pacific bridge & Steel LTD 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Mandarin 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benton House of Woodstock 61 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.