Law enforcement statistics centers, government · California
Sheriff
Bakersfield, CA · ~1,182 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 16.6
- Avg TCR
- 3.2
- Industry avg
- 2
- Fatalities
The verdict
Sheriff runs at 520% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Law enforcement statistics centers, government workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 16.6
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.2
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 2
- worker fatalities on record
Grade compares Sheriff's OSHA Total Case Rate of 16.6 to the Law enforcement statistics centers, government BLS benchmark of 3.2 (520% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Sheriff's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.2 industry benchmark.
Where Sheriff falls in its industry
89 Law enforcement statistics cen establishmentsSafer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.
Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 28 Law enforcement statistics cen employers in California.
Trend analysis for Sheriff
Between 2017 and 2023, Sheriff's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 11.9 to 12.1 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 1% increase across 6 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2019, at a TCR of 10.0, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 33.5, a spread of 23.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 7 reporting years, Sheriff recorded 758 total injuries and illnesses and 2 fatalities. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 758 injuries, 655 illnesses, and 2 fatalities shown on this page for Sheriff are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 922190 - Law enforcement statistics centers, government.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
102 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 2,684,228 hours worked = 7.60 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Sheriff (this establishment) | 16.64 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg |
| Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, government industry avg | 3.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 922190 |
| California state avg (all industries) | 5.64 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Sheriff to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2023: 162 reportable incidents · 122 injuries, 40 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 298 reportable incidents · 102 injuries, 196 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 295 reportable incidents · 91 injuries, 203 illnesses, 1 fatality - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 168 reportable incidents · 64 injuries, 103 illnesses, 1 fatality - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 153 reportable incidents · 115 injuries, 38 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 173 reportable incidents · 124 injuries, 49 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 166 reportable incidents · 140 injuries, 26 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 12.1 | 7.6 | 122 | 40 | 0 |
| 2022 | 24.4 | 18.3 | 102 | 196 | 0 |
| 2021 | 33.5 | 28.1 | 91 | 203 | 1 |
| 2020 | 12.8 | 12.0 | 64 | 103 | 1 |
| 2019 | 10.0 | 4.8 | 115 | 38 | 0 |
| 2018 | 11.8 | 5.0 | 124 | 49 | 0 |
| 2017 | 11.9 | 5.7 | 140 | 26 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Sheriff's reported OSHA injury record versus its Law enforcement statistics centers, government peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 520% of the Law enforcement statistics centers, government benchmark, Sheriff reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Law enforcement statistics centers, government sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.