Employer · California

S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations

Tehachapi, CA · ~41 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations: 3.8 TCR = 145% of industry BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations safety composite

S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−7.2

2018→2024

S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations injury rate improved

S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations's TCR fell 7.2 from 7.2 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.2 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Tehachapi, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #55/247
  • PHOTO Basic Fibres Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Basic Fibres Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations averages 3.8 TCR (145% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations TCR series: 2018=7.2 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.6

Where S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations falls in its industry

2,322 industry establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 247 industry employers in California.

S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations (41 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations
S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations (41 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

S09650 - Kern County Tehachapi Operations has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2022 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.4 7.4 3 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2018 7.2 0.0 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · Tehachapi

2,322 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 26 employers in Tehachapi, 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 Basic Fibres Inc 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix Recycling Collection Center 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Industries Tri-East 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PACIFIC SANITATION INC. 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O ORGANIC FARMING ADMINISTRATION 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Lindsay 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | IEW Enterprise 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Jackson Farms, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Correctional Institution 1,374 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 311 787 FTE
CITY-NEAR World Wind and Solar 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4317 284 FTE
NAT-TCR Parkview Markets 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Sales and Service 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Plumbers Supply Co - Indianapolis 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR East Muskegon Roofing and Sheet Metal Co. Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE SHOP 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE ProCut Concrete Sawing & Drilling 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE RVI-Clarksville 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE WhiteStar - Main 41 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.