Public defenders' offices · California

Public Defender

Bakersfield, CA · ~91 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Defender runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Public defenders' offices workplace, earning a grade C.

Public Defender: 2.6 TCR = 83% of Public defenders' offices BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Defender safety composite

Public Defender scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2019→2023

Public Defender injury rate improved

Public Defender's TCR fell 3.3 from 3.3 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.3 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922130 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/32
  • PHOTO DA_ Visalia Courthouse
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DA_ Visalia Courthouse (0.2 TCR gap)

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Public Defender in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Defender averages 2.6 TCR (83% of the Public defenders' offices BLS benchmark).

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

Public Defender TCR series: 2019=3.3 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Defender falls in its industry

92 Public defenders' offices establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 32 Public defenders' offices employers in California.

Public Defender (91 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Defender
Public Defender (91 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Public Defender has more employees than the Public defenders' offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.3 0.0 3 0 0
2021 4.4 3.3 4 0 0
2020 2.2 2.2 0 2 0
2019 3.3 1.1 0 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922130 · CA · Bakersfield

92 Public defenders' offices 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 DA_ Visalia Courthouse 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Defender 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DA Osbourne 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pendleton DCS 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE CDK Agriculture, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belridge 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Micro Paradox 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE CFS, LP. 91 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 Tanger Outlets North Myrtle 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bend BN 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FT Precision INC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Ventilation, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Magnolia Manor Greenwood 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benson Stone Company 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Furuno USA, Inc. 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Napa 91 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, 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.