Supports, orthopedic (e.g., abdominal, ankle, arch, kneecap), manufacturing · California

Townsend Design-Bakersfield

Bakersfield, CA · ~229 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Townsend Design-Bakersfield runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supports, orthopedic (e.g., abdominal, ankle, arch, kneecap), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Townsend Design-Bakersfield: 3.6 TCR = 108% of Supports, orthopedic (e.g., abdominal, ankle, arch, kneecap), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Townsend Design-Bakersfield safety composite

Townsend Design-Bakersfield scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Townsend Design-Bakersfield: 1.1 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2018

Townsend Design-Bakersfield's TCR rose 5.0 from 1.1 in 2017 to 6.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 108% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #45/65
  • PHOTO Polyzen LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~229 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Polyzen LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Townsend Design-Bakersfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Townsend Design-Bakersfield averages 3.6 TCR (108% of the Supports, orthopedic (e.g., abdominal, ankle, arch, kneecap), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Townsend Design-Bakersfield TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2018=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Townsend Design-Bakersfield falls in its industry

555 Supports, orthopedic (e.g., ab establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 65 Supports, orthopedic (e.g., ab employers in California.

Townsend Design-Bakersfield (229 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Townsend Design-Bakersfield
Townsend Design-Bakersfield (229 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Townsend Design-Bakersfield has more employees than the Supports, orthopedic (e.g., abdominal, a median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2018 6.1 1.9 15 1 0
2017 1.1 0.6 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · CA · Bakersfield

555 Supports, orthopedic (e.g., abdominal, ankle, arch, kneecap), manufacturing 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 Polyzen LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAC Medical, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freudenberg Medical 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bio Med Sciences, Inc. 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Stone 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2400-Oxnard, CA 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN FARMLAND CULTIVATION, INC. 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Central Orange County S/C 229 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 New Holstein, WI- Plant 2 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Weeks Marine Equipment Maintenance 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wixom (Miwix) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Frenchtown RTS 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hendrick Dorms Inc. 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04513 - Texas Waste Mgmt - Lewisville 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE CS Wholesale Grocers : Orlando, FL (GDC) 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Solutions : IS - MFG US - Morristown, TN 229 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.