Commodity inspection services · California

Kern Delta Water District

Bakersfield, CA · ~36 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kern Delta Water District runs at 336% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commodity inspection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Kern Delta Water District: 1.7 TCR = 336% of Commodity inspection services BLS 0.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kern Delta Water District safety composite

Kern Delta Water District scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

Kern Delta Water District held a steady TCR band

Kern Delta Water District's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541990 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 1.7 · 336% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/13
  • PHOTO Corrosion Monitoring…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corrosion Monitoring Services (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kern Delta Water District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kern Delta Water District averages 1.7 TCR (336% of the Commodity inspection services BLS benchmark).

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

Kern Delta Water District TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 0.5

Where Kern Delta Water District falls in its industry

123 Commodity inspection services establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 13 Commodity inspection services employers in California.

Kern Delta Water District (36 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 152 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kern Delta Water District
Kern Delta Water District (36 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 152 employees and a TCR of 0.9

Kern Delta Water District has fewer employees than the Commodity inspection services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 5.9 5.9 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541990 · CA · Bakersfield

123 Commodity inspection services 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 Corrosion Monitoring Services 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christiansburg 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Qlarant Quality Solutions 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Bragg 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 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 Succor Delivery Services LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR International Paper 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Spring Arbor of Rocky Mount 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor Water Technologies - Main 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Century Linen- Gloversville 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE NA-US-WA-Fife-3701 20th St E 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE NH-Pewaukee Community Hospital 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE NH-New Berlin Community Hosplital 36 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, 2019, 2018. 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.