Commercial building construction general contractors · California

Vortex Construction

Bakersfield, CA · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vortex Construction runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Vortex Construction: 4.9 TCR = 168% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vortex Construction safety composite

Vortex Construction scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Vortex Construction: 6.2 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.73× in 2024

Vortex Construction's TCR rose 2.3 from 6.2 in 2022 to 8.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 168% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #371/486
  • PHOTO RLM General Contract…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RLM General Contractors (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vortex Construction in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vortex Construction averages 4.9 TCR (168% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Vortex Construction TCR series: 2022=6.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 2.9

Where Vortex Construction falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #371 safest of 486 Commercial building constructi employers in California.

Vortex Construction (24 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Vortex Construction
Vortex Construction (24 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Vortex Construction has fewer employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2024 8.5 8.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.2 6.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · CA · Bakersfield

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors 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 RLM General Contractors 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Service First 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boyle Construction Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MACC Projects PSFB 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agro-Jal Farming Enterprises 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTD Farms 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms 24 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 HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hooper DSC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gehring Tricot Corp. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Buferd Company dBa Unity Manufacturing 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE PDC, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1166 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE YKK AP America - Cincinnati, Ohio Facility 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Markham Inc 24 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.