Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Kern Harvesting Inc.

Bakersfield, CA · ~210 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Kern Harvesting Inc. runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade C.

Kern Harvesting Inc.: 4.3 TCR = 95% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kern Harvesting Inc. safety composite

Kern Harvesting Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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 Harvesting Inc.: 2.1 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

Kern Harvesting Inc.'s TCR rose 3.6 from 2.1 in 2019 to 5.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 95% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #312/620
  • PHOTO Lost Hills Location
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~210 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lost Hills Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kern Harvesting Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kern Harvesting Inc. averages 4.3 TCR (95% 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 Harvesting Inc. TCR series: 2019=2.1 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Kern Harvesting Inc. falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #312 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Kern Harvesting Inc. (210 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Harvesting Inc.
Kern Harvesting Inc. (210 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Kern Harvesting Inc. has more 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 5.7 3.8 5 1 0
2023 3.2 1.8 6 1 0
2022 3.3 2.4 7 0 0
2021 6.9 3.1 11 0 0
2020 4.5 0.7 7 0 0
2019 2.1 1.0 3 1 1

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 Lost Hills Location 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AG VANTAGE FARMING, INC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Labor Contracting, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SHIOKAZE BERRY FARMS 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3378_6551 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rincon Pacific, LLC 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodland, CA 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE RC FARMS-SALINAS VALLEY 210 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 Titan Tire Corporation 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Casa Grande,AZ 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Westin Charlotte 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Frasier's Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE GlobiTech Incorporated 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoyt Archery 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Y. Hata & Company, Ltd. 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunesis Environmental, LLC 210 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.