School bus services · California

KHSD Transportation Department

Bakersfield, CA · ~332 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KHSD Transportation Department runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade F.

KHSD Transportation Department: 10.1 TCR = 225% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KHSD Transportation Department safety composite

KHSD Transportation Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

−4.6

2019→2022

KHSD Transportation Department injury rate improved

KHSD Transportation Department's TCR fell 4.6 from 14.8 in 2019 to 10.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=14.8 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=10.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 225% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #99/119
  • PHOTO 20511 - Norwin
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~332 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 20511 - Norwin (0.0 TCR gap)

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KHSD Transportation Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KHSD Transportation Department averages 10.1 TCR (225% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

KHSD Transportation Department TCR series: 2019=14.8 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=10.2 · BLS 4.5

Where KHSD Transportation Department falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #99 safest of 119 School bus services employers in California.

KHSD Transportation Department (332 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate KHSD Transportation Department
KHSD Transportation Department (332 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

KHSD Transportation Department has more employees than the School bus services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2022 10.2 8.9 15 1 0
2021 10.7 10.7 14 2 0
2020 4.8 4.2 8 0 0
2019 14.8 12.2 23 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CA · Bakersfield

1,574 School bus services 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 20511 - Norwin 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRANSPORTATION 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 403017-Portsmouth | NH | 403017 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-3101 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fruit Packing #3 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tutor Perini Zachry Parsons 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6768-67680038-1706 332 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 Glade Spring Dry Van Plant 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Teton Ace Hardware 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0027-0026-00471 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0019-0019-04404 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ULS Conshohocken 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cooper Companies Inc. 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE LTRLAR91 332 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: 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.