HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors · California

Mesa - Hillcrest

Bakersfield, CA · ~60 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mesa - Hillcrest runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Mesa - Hillcrest: 0.9 TCR = 34% of HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mesa - Hillcrest safety composite

Mesa - Hillcrest scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

Mesa - Hillcrest: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2024

Mesa - Hillcrest's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 34% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #52/594
  • PHOTO Goyette Mechanical
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goyette Mechanical (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mesa - Hillcrest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mesa - Hillcrest averages 0.9 TCR (34% of the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Mesa - Hillcrest TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Mesa - Hillcrest falls in its industry

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 594 HVAC (heating, ventilation and employers in California.

Mesa - Hillcrest (60 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mesa - Hillcrest
Mesa - Hillcrest (60 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Mesa - Hillcrest has more employees than the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-condi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2023 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Bakersfield

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors 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 Goyette Mechanical 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Graycon, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR St Louis, MO HVAC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR US172: Philadelphia 544 - SG 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Coast Vineyards 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming Cooperative, Inc | Grapes Delano 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paiva Farm Management 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rocket Farms Herbs Inc Thermal 60 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 Rehab Building 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NOVA District Complex 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR York Csc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 076j - Worcester Ma Rntl 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Grandview C4 Sd Janitorial 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Bellevue Medical Center Evs 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sioux Falls Transportation 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE H&M Snow Pros, Inc. 60 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, 2020, 2019. 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.