Prisons · California

Kern Valley State Prison

Delano, CA · ~1,523 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
3
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kern Valley State Prison runs at 494% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Prisons workplace, earning a grade F.

Kern Valley State Prison: 15.8 TCR = 494% of Prisons BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kern Valley State Prison safety composite

Kern Valley State Prison scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 3

Safer than 1% 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 Valley State Prison: 12.6 → 75.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 19322.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.03× in 2024

Kern Valley State Prison's TCR rose 62.9 from 12.6 in 2017 to 75.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 19322.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Delano, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 15.8 · 494% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #50/73
  • PHOTO Wayne Brown Correcti…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 1,158 inj
  • SIZE ~1,523 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wayne Brown Correctional Facility (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kern Valley State Prison in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kern Valley State Prison averages 15.8 TCR (494% of the Prisons BLS benchmark).

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

Kern Valley State Prison TCR series: 2017=12.6 · 2018=18.6 · 2019=18.8 · 2020=13.2 · 2022=19322 · 2023=53.1 · 2024=75.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Kern Valley State Prison falls in its industry

482 Prisons establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 73 Prisons employers in California.

Kern Valley State Prison (1,523 employees, TCR 15.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,5002,000 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Kern Valley State Prison
Kern Valley State Prison (1,523 employees, TCR 15.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Kern Valley State Prison has more employees than the Prisons median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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 75.5 0.5 149 9 0
2023 53.1 0.0 96 17 1
2022 19322.0 0.0 86 28 1
2020 13.2 0.0 157 18 1
2019 18.8 0.1 259 0 0
2018 18.6 0.0 234 4 0
2017 12.6 0.0 177 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · CA · Delano

482 Prisons employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 123 employers in Delano, 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 Wayne Brown Correctional Facility 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5601 W. Trails End Rd. 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manson Youth Institution 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCSD Theo Lacy Facility 15.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 207 1,523 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hulu-DMED 1,522 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,520 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2252-00000735 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR HMN Incorporated 1,942 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rachma Contracting, Inc. 1,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunview Vineyards of California Inc 1,489 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 589 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR Uds 0371 (Smyrna - F) 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Silverado Hospice South Houston - 353 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Upstate Farms Logistics LLC 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Barnsley Resort 15.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Honeywell Aerospace-Sky Harbor 1,523 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Ice Cream Plant 1,523 FTE
NAT-SIZE UPMC St Margaret 1,522 FTE
NAT-SIZE BP Whiting Refinery 1,522 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.