Refineries, petroleum · California

Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC.

Name: Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Bakersfield, CA · ~82 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC. runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Refineries, petroleum workplace, earning a grade B.

Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC.: 2.2 TCR = 68% of Refineries, petroleum BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC. safety composite

Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers
DART rate: F 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC. held a steady TCR band

Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 1.9 in 2021 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.9 · 2022=2.6 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324110 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 68% of ind

DART 1.5 DART
RANK #16/18
PHOTO Calcasieu Refining C…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Calcasieu Refining Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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What this shows Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC. averages 2.2 TCR (68% of the Refineries, petroleum BLS benchmark).

Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC. TCR series: 2021=1.9 · 2022=2.6 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC. falls in its industry

198 Refineries, petroleum establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 18 Refineries, petroleum employers in California.

Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC. (82 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC. has fewer employees than the Refineries, petroleum median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.5. 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
2024	2.2	1.5	3
2022	2.6	2.6	2
2021	1.9	1.9	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · CA · Bakersfield

198 Refineries, petroleum 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Calcasieu Refining Company	LAKE CHARLES, LA	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Blue Flame, Inc	BERKELEY SPRINGS, WV	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bio-Energy	GUYMON, OK	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kern Oil & Refining Co.	BAKERSFIELD, CA	2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	West Coast Harvesting Inc.	SOMIS	82 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Farm	GUINDA	82 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wight Vineyard Management, Inc.	SAINT HELENA	82 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Growers Harvesting LLC	SALINAS	82 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CA Bakersfield	Bakersfield	4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CA-04	Bakersfield	4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL1	Bakersfield	4,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Esparza Enterprises, Inc	Bakersfield	3,267 FTE
NAT-TCR	Sam's Town Hotel Gambling Hall	Las Vegas, NV	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kaw Valley Companies, Inc.	Kansas City, KS	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Woodward Iodine Corporation	Woodward, OK	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	IKO Northeast	Hagerstown, MD	2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Rimrock Construction	Draper, UT	82 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Denn-Co Construction	Detroit, MI	82 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Nelson Brothers Trucking, Inc.	Springfield, OR	82 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Arvada Care and Rehabilitation	Arvada, CO	82 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.