Pails, plastics, manufacturing · California

KW Plastics of California

Bakersfield, CA · ~29 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KW Plastics of California runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pails, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

KW Plastics of California: 1.7 TCR = 51% of Pails, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KW Plastics of California safety composite

KW Plastics of California scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

KW Plastics of California held a steady TCR band

KW Plastics of California's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/117
  • PHOTO Cornerstone Building…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cornerstone Building Brands (0.0 TCR gap)

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KW Plastics of California in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KW Plastics of California averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the Pails, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

KW Plastics of California TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where KW Plastics of California falls in its industry

2,838 Pails, plastics, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 117 Pails, plastics, manufacturing employers in California.

KW Plastics of California (29 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 KW Plastics of California
KW Plastics of California (29 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

KW Plastics of California has fewer employees than the Pails, plastics, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 6.8 6.8 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · CA · Bakersfield

2,838 Pails, plastics, 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 Cornerstone Building Brands 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aurora Technologies, Incorporated 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hubbell Lenoir City 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winpak Portion Packaging 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sean V. Doherty Farms 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blanco Farms, LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT SHOP 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cottonwood Farms 29 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 G&L Davis Meat Co 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Windings, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Maharishi University of Management 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley Woods 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Maine Painting Company 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE LTSR Brookville 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whyco Finishing Technologies LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Car Wash 8106 29 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.