HEALTHCARE · California

Kern Regional Center

Bakersfield, CA · ~117 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kern Regional Center runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical HEALTHCARE workplace, earning a grade A.

Kern Regional Center: 0.5 TCR = 23% of HEALTHCARE BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kern Regional Center safety composite

Kern Regional Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−1.0

2022→2024

Kern Regional Center injury rate improved

Kern Regional Center's TCR fell 1.0 from 1.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 813410 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 23% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/69
  • PHOTO Fairgrounds YMCA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fairgrounds YMCA (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kern Regional Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kern Regional Center averages 0.5 TCR (23% of the HEALTHCARE BLS benchmark).

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

Kern Regional Center TCR series: 2022=1 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Kern Regional Center falls in its industry

298 HEALTHCARE establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 69 HEALTHCARE employers in California.

Kern Regional Center (117 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Kern Regional Center
Kern Regional Center (117 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Kern Regional Center has more employees than the HEALTHCARE median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2022 1.0 1.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

813410 · CA · Bakersfield

298 HEALTHCARE 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 Fairgrounds YMCA 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR YMCA of San Diego County, Team Headquarters 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maplewood Family YMCA 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clippard YMCA Branch 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frog Hollow Farm LLC 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Standard Cattle LLC 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE LFA 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oxnard Plant #4 117 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 Pitchford Elevator Company 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson and Johnson Vision Care Jacksonville 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Promises Behavioral Health, LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint-Gobain PERF PLASTCS CORP 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Albany Regional 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eden Retirement Center 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chester 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Bi-Products - Long Prairie 117 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, 2022. 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.