Employer · California

Kern County Hospital Authority

Bakersfield, CA · ~2,006 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kern County Hospital Authority runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Kern County Hospital Authority: 3.0 TCR = 39% of industry BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kern County Hospital Authority safety composite

Kern County Hospital Authority scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 County Hospital Authority: 1.8 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

Kern County Hospital Authority's TCR rose 2.4 from 1.8 in 2023 to 4.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 3.0 · 39% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #84/662
  • PHOTO Culberson Hospital
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~2,006 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Culberson Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kern County Hospital Authority in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kern County Hospital Authority averages 3.0 TCR (39% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Kern County Hospital Authority TCR series: 2023=1.8 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 7.5

Where Kern County Hospital Authority falls in its industry

6,862 industry establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #84 safest of 662 industry employers in California.

Kern County Hospital Authority (2,006 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kern County Hospital Authority
Kern County Hospital Authority (2,006 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Kern County Hospital Authority has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 4.1 2.6 50 3 0
2023 1.8 0.7 33 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CA · Bakersfield

6,862 industry 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 Culberson Hospital 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hardin County General Hospital 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Hospital Bremen 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brock West, LLC 2,008 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aegion Energy Services 2,010 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 49 2,011 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 47 2,011 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 The Yost Superior Co 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Houstonian Hotel 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Leavenworth Service Center 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Davlyn Manufacturing 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Deerfield Beach 2,006 FTE
NAT-SIZE Business Office - Benson Tower 2,007 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - AFW1 2,005 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nissan Americas Headquarters - Franklin 2,007 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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