Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · California

Washington St Branch

Bakersfield, CA · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Washington St Branch runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Washington St Branch: 5.0 TCR = 226% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Washington St Branch safety composite

Washington St Branch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Washington St Branch: 4.2 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.62× in 2024

Washington St Branch's TCR rose 3.9 from 4.2 in 2018 to 8.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 226% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #104/136
  • PHOTO The Andersons, Inc. …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Andersons, Inc. - Walton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Washington St Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Washington St Branch averages 5.0 TCR (226% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Washington St Branch TCR series: 2018=4.2 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Washington St Branch falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #104 safest of 136 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in California.

Washington St Branch (30 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 Washington St Branch
Washington St Branch (30 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Washington St Branch has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 8.1 8.1 2 0 0
2023 6.6 0.0 2 0 0
2022 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2018 4.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · CA · Bakersfield

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers 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 The Andersons, Inc. - Walton 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEW Cooperative Inc. - Red Oak 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adams - Railroad St. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dudley, MO 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE BZNUR 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1780 San Juan Rd. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charter Oaks 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfields Turf, Inc. 30 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 Ndjtw - Jamestown 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Planters Cotton Oil Mill Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadleaf Contracting 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnsrud Transport 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 40th District Court 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kelly Group Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE B&W Disposal, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn 30 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, 2021, 2018. 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.