Farm labor contractors · California

R&B Farm Services

Bakersfield, CA · ~340 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R&B Farm Services runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

R&B Farm Services: 2.1 TCR = 46% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R&B Farm Services safety composite

R&B Farm Services scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−1.3

2017→2024

R&B Farm Services injury rate improved

R&B Farm Services's TCR fell 1.3 from 1.3 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.3 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.1 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #137/620
  • PHOTO Desert Infinity, Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~340 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Desert Infinity, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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R&B Farm Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R&B Farm Services averages 2.1 TCR (46% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

R&B Farm Services TCR series: 2017=1.3 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where R&B Farm Services falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #137 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

R&B Farm Services (340 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate R&B Farm Services
R&B Farm Services (340 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

R&B Farm Services has more employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 1.9 1.3 6 0 0
2022 1.3 0.3 4 0 0
2021 3.2 2.8 8 0 0
2020 2.1 0.7 6 0 0
2019 3.3 1.6 9 1 0
2018 3.5 1.0 10 0 0
2017 1.3 1.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Bakersfield

836 Farm labor 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 Desert Infinity, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacifica Personnel, inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empire Farm Labor Contracting, Inc 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vineyard Management 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE GREGG ELECTRIC, INC 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE JAM Industries.Inc. 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illumina 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wabash Moreno Valley 340 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 Ketcher & Company, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ronken Industries Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Centerville 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sharon Healthcare Pines 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kennedy Valve Company 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland Plant 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Positronic Eldon Facility 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE HOU 340 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, 2018, 2017. 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.