Other Snack Food Manufacturing · California

Kern Plant

Bakersfield, CA · ~812 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kern Plant runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Other Snack Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kern Plant: 2.4 TCR = 59% of Other Snack Food Manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kern Plant safety composite

Kern Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2018→2024

Kern Plant injury rate improved

Kern Plant's TCR fell 1.4 from 3.4 in 2018 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.4 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 59% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #4/15
  • PHOTO Legacy Bake House
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~812 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Legacy Bake House (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kern Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kern Plant averages 2.4 TCR (59% of the Other Snack Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kern Plant TCR series: 2018=3.4 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 4.1

Where Kern Plant falls in its industry

253 Other Snack Food Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 15 Other Snack Food Manufacturing employers in California.

Kern Plant (812 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kern Plant
Kern Plant (812 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Kern Plant has more employees than the Other Snack Food Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 2.1 1.6 16 0 0
2023 1.5 1.2 10 0 0
2022 2.7 2.2 17 4 0
2018 3.4 2.9 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · CA · Bakersfield

253 Other Snack Food Manufacturing 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 Legacy Bake House 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DSC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wise Foods, Inc. - Fort Worth TX 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snyder's Lance Inc. - Beloit 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2576-50610000-5061 812 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 384 811 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 390 811 FTE
STATE-SIZE ResMed San Diego 813 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 Phillips Chevrolet, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sherman+Reilly 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Carey Manufacturing Co. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dodson Brothers Exterminating Company, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quench USA 812 FTE
NAT-SIZE Camden NJ (HQ) 812 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - TPA2 812 FTE
NAT-SIZE CORP Saint Luke's Health Systems, Inc. 812 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, 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.