Orthopedic devices manufacturing · California

Townsend Industries Inc

Bakersfield, CA · ~190 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Townsend Industries Inc runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Orthopedic devices manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Townsend Industries Inc: 5.3 TCR = 160% of Orthopedic devices manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Townsend Industries Inc safety composite

Townsend Industries Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2023→2024

Townsend Industries Inc injury rate improved

Townsend Industries Inc's TCR fell 4.8 from 7.7 in 2023 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.7 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 160% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #54/65
  • PHOTO HARD Manufacturing C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~190 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Townsend Industries Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Townsend Industries Inc averages 5.3 TCR (160% of the Orthopedic devices manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Townsend Industries Inc TCR series: 2023=7.7 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Townsend Industries Inc falls in its industry

555 Orthopedic devices manufacturi establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #54 safest of 65 Orthopedic devices manufacturi employers in California.

Townsend Industries Inc (190 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Industries Inc
Townsend Industries Inc (190 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Townsend Industries Inc has more employees than the Orthopedic devices manufacturing 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
2024 2.9 2.2 4 0 0
2023 7.7 7.7 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · CA · Bakersfield

555 Orthopedic devices 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 HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spinal Systems, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSE Corporation 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Augustine Temperature Management 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zuckerman Family Farms 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Santa Margarita Water District 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE City Of Sacramento-Field Services Division Roll-Up (140014) 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Courtney Inc. 190 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 Options in Community Living, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller Proctor Nickolas,Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sysco Columbia 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Orlando Airport 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Alternative Care 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCL Puerto Rico, Inc 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of NIttany Valley 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charps, LLC 190 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. 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.