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
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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.

Sheriff: 16.6 TCR = 520% of Law enforcement statistics centers, government BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheriff safety composite

Sheriff scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 11% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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).

F

8/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 3% 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%).

Sheriff held a steady TCR band

Sheriff's TCR held near 0.2 from 11.9 in 2017 to 12.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 33.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.9 · 2018=11.8 · 2019=10.0 · 2020=12.8 · 2021=33.5 · 2022=24.4 · 2023=12.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922190 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 16.6 · 520% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #19/25
  • PHOTO Sheriff's Office - L…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 758 inj
  • SIZE ~1,182 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sheriff's Office - Law Enforcement (0.4 TCR gap)

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Sheriff in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheriff averages 16.6 TCR (520% of the Law enforcement statistics centers, government BLS benchmark).

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

Sheriff TCR series: 2017=11.9 · 2018=11.8 · 2019=10 · 2020=12.8 · 2021=33.5 · 2022=24.4 · 2023=12.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Sheriff falls in its industry

79 Law enforcement statistics cen establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 25 Law enforcement statistics cen employers in California.

Sheriff (1,182 employees, TCR 16.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheriff
Sheriff (1,182 employees, TCR 16.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Sheriff has more employees than the Law enforcement statistics centers, gove median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922190 · CA · Bakersfield

79 Law enforcement statistics centers, government 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 Sheriff's Office - Law Enforcement 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Elmwood Park Law Enforcement 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oficina Municipal del Manejo de Emergencias 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Probation 14.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 418 1,182 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 417 1,182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aspiranet 1,182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premium Employment Services Inc. 1,181 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 Country View 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Otterbein Loveland 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0637 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Avenue Division 16.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE RBM Services Inc 1,182 FTE
NAT-SIZE OFC 1,182 FTE
NAT-SIZE MultiCare Rockwood Clinics-All (Company 52) 1,182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lonza Portsmouth 1,182 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.