Vineyard cultivation services · California

Kindig Bros. Inc

Bakersfield, CA · ~22 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kindig Bros. Inc runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Vineyard cultivation services workplace, earning a grade B.

Kindig Bros. Inc: 2.7 TCR = 61% of Vineyard cultivation services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kindig Bros. Inc safety composite

Kindig Bros. Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kindig Bros. Inc: 0.0 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.26× in 2023

Kindig Bros. Inc's TCR rose 6.2 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 2.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115112 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 61% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #21/86
  • PHOTO Braga Ranch Arizona
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Braga Ranch Arizona (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kindig Bros. Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kindig Bros. Inc averages 2.7 TCR (61% of the Vineyard cultivation services BLS benchmark).

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

Kindig Bros. Inc TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Kindig Bros. Inc falls in its industry

221 Vineyard cultivation services establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 86 Vineyard cultivation services employers in California.

Kindig Bros. Inc (22 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kindig Bros. Inc
Kindig Bros. Inc (22 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Kindig Bros. Inc has fewer employees than the Vineyard cultivation services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2023 6.2 6.2 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.5 7.5 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115112 · CA · Bakersfield

221 Vineyard cultivation 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 Braga Ranch Arizona 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Pacific Farming Cooperative, Inc l Citrus Farming l Arvin 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Counties Cooperative Litchfield 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE LaGrande Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Carlo Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linda Vista Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOUNTAIN VIEW FARM SHOP 22 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 holmberg Co. Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brandkamp Cabinets LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bristol Care Center 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Williams Trucking of the Carolinas LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pueblo Facility 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid Island Steel Corp 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hockaday Mechanical Corporation 22 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.