Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Kern Ag Services Inc

Bakersfield, CA · ~78 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kern Ag Services Inc runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade B.

Kern Ag Services Inc: 2.3 TCR = 50% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kern Ag Services Inc safety composite

Kern Ag Services Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Kern Ag Services Inc: 2.6 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

Kern Ag Services Inc's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.6 in 2019 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 50% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #155/620
  • PHOTO CORONADO LABOR CONTR…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CORONADO LABOR CONTRACTING, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kern Ag Services Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kern Ag Services Inc averages 2.3 TCR (50% of the Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS benchmark).

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

Kern Ag Services Inc TCR series: 2019=2.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Kern Ag Services Inc falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #155 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Kern Ag Services Inc (78 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kern Ag Services Inc
Kern Ag Services Inc (78 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Kern Ag Services Inc has fewer employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 4.3 2.1 2 2 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.7 2.3 2 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.6 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Bakersfield

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews 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 CORONADO LABOR CONTRACTING, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alico Citrus 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR EDITH VILLALBASO 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR A & R Contracting 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Endive Farms 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE VF - Napa 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Russell Harris Farms 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hadley Date Gardens, Inc. 78 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 Middleburg FL 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Oscar Wilson Engines and Parts, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DeLaval Manufacturing Chillicothe 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 551 Eagle Grove 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orem City Fire Department 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE George Evans Corporation 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Student-Berrien Springs 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Renaissance Columbus Westerville-Polaris Hotel 78 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.