Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing · California

KS Fabrication and Machine

Bakersfield, CA · ~84 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KS Fabrication and Machine runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

KS Fabrication and Machine: 0.8 TCR = 24% of Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KS Fabrication and Machine safety composite

KS Fabrication and Machine scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

KS Fabrication and Machine: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2023

KS Fabrication and Machine's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #6/66
  • PHOTO Metro Site Fabricato…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metro Site Fabricators, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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KS Fabrication and Machine in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KS Fabrication and Machine averages 0.8 TCR (24% of the Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

KS Fabrication and Machine TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where KS Fabrication and Machine falls in its industry

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 66 Structural steel, fabricated, employers in California.

KS Fabrication and Machine (84 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate KS Fabrication and Machine
KS Fabrication and Machine (84 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

KS Fabrication and Machine has more employees than the Structural steel, fabricated, manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2022 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · CA · Bakersfield

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing 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 Metro Site Fabricators, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harris Rebar Northern California Inc. - Carson City Nevada 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steelcon LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MidSouth Fabrication and Coatings 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE montalvo farms 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hansen Custom Farming, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilarides Dairy 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Service, LLC. 84 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 IE Distribution Services, LLC. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Memphis - Holmes 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Army Field Support Battalion - Fort Hood 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR SpringHill Suites Navarre Beach 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aurora Flight Sciences Mississippi 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Osment Models Inc. 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Architectural Precast Innovations, Inc. 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wide Horizons Residential Care 84 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.