Refrigerated Warehouse and Storage · California

USCS- Bakersfield, CA

Bakersfield, CA · ~75 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

USCS- Bakersfield, CA runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Refrigerated Warehouse and Storage workplace, earning a grade A.

USCS- Bakersfield, CA: 1.9 TCR = 32% of Refrigerated Warehouse and Storage BLS 5.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

USCS- Bakersfield, CA safety composite

USCS- Bakersfield, CA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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)
B 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

USCS- Bakersfield, CA: 1.4 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2021

USCS- Bakersfield, CA's TCR rose 1.9 from 1.4 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #15/125
  • PHOTO Mid-South Produce Di…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mid-South Produce Distributors Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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USCS- Bakersfield, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows USCS- Bakersfield, CA averages 1.9 TCR (32% of the Refrigerated Warehouse and Storage BLS benchmark).

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

USCS- Bakersfield, CA TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=0 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=3.3 · BLS 5.8

Where USCS- Bakersfield, CA falls in its industry

1,039 Refrigerated Warehouse and Sto establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 125 Refrigerated Warehouse and Sto employers in California.

USCS- Bakersfield, CA (75 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate USCS- Bakersfield, CA
USCS- Bakersfield, CA (75 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

USCS- Bakersfield, CA has more employees than the Refrigerated Warehouse and Storage median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2021 3.3 1.1 3 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2019 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · CA · Bakersfield

1,039 Refrigerated Warehouse and Storage 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 Mid-South Produce Distributors Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Valley Foods - Hobart, WI 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Refrigerated Milwaukee Brown Deer Road 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commercial Warehousing T5 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunset Farms, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martinelli Vineyard Managment, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTVIEW BERRY FARMS 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE DJRAS CORP DBA PRIME HARVEST CONTRACTING 75 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 Ruan Transport Corporation T-550 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Protein Sciences Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tempe FS (SSS,CSS) 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Instrumentation : Erie IPD 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Netcom Technologies Inc 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neogen Corporation 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herbert Annex Building 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE #17 Bridgeport 75 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.