Harvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, merchant wholesalers · California

Kern Machinery, Inc

Name: Kern Machinery, Inc Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Bakersfield, CA · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Kern Machinery, Inc runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Harvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Kern Machinery, Inc: 2.3 TCR = 105% of Harvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kern Machinery, Inc safety composite

Kern Machinery, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Kern Machinery, Inc held a steady TCR band

Kern Machinery, Inc's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.1 in 2023 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.1 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 105% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK #5/27
PHOTO Shelbyville
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shelbyville (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Kern Machinery, Inc averages 2.3 TCR (105% of the Harvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Kern Machinery, Inc TCR series: 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Kern Machinery, Inc falls in its industry

700 Harvesting machinery and equip establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 27 Harvesting machinery and equip employers in California.

Kern Machinery, Inc (53 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Kern Machinery, Inc has more employees than the Harvesting machinery and equipment, agri median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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	2.5	2.5	1	0	0
2023	2.1	2.1	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · CA · Bakersfield

700 Harvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, merchant wholesalers 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Shelbyville	SHELBYVILLE, KY	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hull Brothers Inc	FORT RECOVERY, OH	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	London OH	LONDON, OH	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	C & B Operations Gettysburg	GETTYSBURG, SD	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	P-R Farms	CLOVIS	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LRC LABOR SERVICES INC	PORTERVILLE	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Acemi Nursery	KERMAN	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ball Tagawa Growers	ARROYO GRANDE	53 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CA Bakersfield	Bakersfield	4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CA-04	Bakersfield	4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL1	Bakersfield	4,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Esparza Enterprises, Inc	Bakersfield	3,267 FTE
NAT-TCR	Prescott's Inc	Monument, CO	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	DMAX, Ltd.	Moraine, OH	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Perrone Landscaping, Inc.	Holden, MA	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	TX	Dallas, TX	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	USA Flushing Laguardia APO	Flushing, NY	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	USA Alcoa 2055 Alcoa Hwy	Alcoa, TN	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	USA Memphis 3593 Airways Blvd	Memphis, TN	53 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.