Kern County Sheriffs Department

County of Kern

1350 Norris Road, Bakersfield, CA 93308
Highway patrols, police (NAICS 922120)

1 fatality DART 6.99 165 recordable cases · 1,202 avg employees · 2,546,820 hours worked

This establishment vs. the industry

This establishment reported 1 work-related death in its 2024 ITA filing — a fatal-injury rate of about 79 per 100,000 full-time-equivalent workers. For context, the national fatal-injury rate across all industries averaged 3.7 per 100,000 FTE in 2022 (BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries). DART, computed below, counts only non-fatal cases (days away from work or restricted duty); it does not include fatalities.

The DART rate at this establishment is 1.4× the industry median.

This establishment: 6.99
Industry median (Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native), n=442): 4.89

Reported injury and illness, 2024

Fatalities1 Days-away-from-work cases36 Restricted-duty / transferred cases53 Other recordable cases75 Total recordable cases165 Days lost to injury1,811

Injury rates (per 100 FTE-year, OSHA standard)

DART rate6.99 (days away + restricted/transferred) DAFW rate2.83 (days away from work only) Total recordable rate (TRIR)12.96 (all OSHA-recordable cases) Annual average employees1,202 Total hours worked2,546,820
What these numbers mean. An OSHA-recordable case is a work-related injury or illness that resulted in death, days away from work, restricted work, transfer to another job, medical treatment beyond first aid, loss of consciousness, or significant injury diagnosed by a physician. DART rate is the OSHA-standard incidence measure — calculate it as (cases with days away + restricted/transferred) × 200,000 / hours worked. The 200,000 hours normalizes to 100 full-time-equivalent workers over a year. National average DART across all industries is around 1.7; high-risk industries (skilled nursing, warehousing, courier) routinely exceed 5.

Source: OSHA ITA 300A Summary Data, calendar year 2024 filings (downloaded 2026-05-22).

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