General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · California

KTL

Kettleman City, CA · ~143 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KTL runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade C.

KTL: 5.4 TCR = 119% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KTL safety composite

KTL scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−5.6

2017→2018

KTL injury rate improved

KTL's TCR fell 5.6 from 8.2 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.2 · 2018=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Kettleman City, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.4 · 119% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #116/273
  • PHOTO ULX
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ULX (0.0 TCR gap)

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KTL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KTL averages 5.4 TCR (119% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

KTL TCR series: 2017=8.2 · 2018=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where KTL falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #116 safest of 273 General freight trucking, long employers in California.

KTL (143 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 KTL
KTL (143 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

KTL has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2018 2.6 1.9 4 0 0
2017 8.2 6.7 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · CA · Kettleman City

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 6 employers in Kettleman City, 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 ULX 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR USJ 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR JXN 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grenada MS FXFE-GNA 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Kautz Farms 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deseret Farms of California 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Woodland WDL1 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kettleman City CA FXFE-KTL 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR UKC 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR JACK IN THE BOX 3263 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill 38 FTE
NAT-TCR Metal Coaters of Georgia 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bakery Feeds Butler 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Blaine MN 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 25 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plant 601 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE SCC of Pilgrim Manor Rehabilitation Center 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Biltrite - Moorestown, NJ 143 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.