Potato farming, field and seed potato production · California

Kirschenmann Farms, Inc

Bakersfield, CA · ~101 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kirschenmann Farms, Inc runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade B.

Kirschenmann Farms, Inc: 3.5 TCR = 78% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kirschenmann Farms, Inc safety composite

Kirschenmann Farms, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Kirschenmann Farms, Inc: 5.7 → 583.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 583.9 TCR · DART/TCR 165.42× in 2021

Kirschenmann Farms, Inc's TCR rose 578.2 from 5.7 in 2017 to 583.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 165.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 583.9 DART
  • RANK #7/24
  • PHOTO Heartland Farms, Inc…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heartland Farms, Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kirschenmann Farms, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kirschenmann Farms, Inc averages 3.5 TCR (78% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

Kirschenmann Farms, Inc TCR series: 2017=5.7 · 2018=3.8 · 2020=1 · 2021=583.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Kirschenmann Farms, Inc falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 70% 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 #7 safest of 24 Potato farming, field and seed employers in California.

Kirschenmann Farms, Inc (101 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kirschenmann Farms, Inc
Kirschenmann Farms, Inc (101 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Kirschenmann Farms, Inc has more employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr 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
2021 583.9 583.9 2 0 0
2020 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.8 1.9 6 0 0
2017 5.7 2.3 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · CA · Bakersfield

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production 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 Heartland Farms, Incorporated 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AgriNorthwest - Washington 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterman Masser, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allied Potato Colorado 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE M & R Company 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Sun Grower Services 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Camacho FLC, Inc 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE LA AQUEDUCT FILTRATION PLANT 101 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 Morgal Machine Tool 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Health & Social Services (59) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Maple Ave 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Jc-Duggan Inc, India Warehouse Corp 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 519318-Vienna Po 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #030 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #109 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE 127557-Rome Po 101 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: 2021, 2020, 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.