General Undergroud Contractor · California

Machado Backhoe, Inc.

Stevinson, CA · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Machado Backhoe, Inc. runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General Undergroud Contractor workplace, earning a grade F.

Machado Backhoe, Inc.: 5.7 TCR = 202% of General Undergroud Contractor BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Machado Backhoe, Inc. safety composite

Machado Backhoe, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Machado Backhoe, Inc.: 5.9 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Machado Backhoe, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.1 from 5.9 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Stevinson, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #149/184
  • PHOTO William T. Cantrell,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: William T. Cantrell, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Machado Backhoe, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Machado Backhoe, Inc. averages 5.7 TCR (202% of the General Undergroud Contractor BLS benchmark).

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

Machado Backhoe, Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2018=3.1 · 2023=8 · BLS 2.8

Where Machado Backhoe, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 General Undergroud Contractor establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #149 safest of 184 General Undergroud Contractor employers in California.

Machado Backhoe, Inc. (31 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Machado Backhoe, Inc.
Machado Backhoe, Inc. (31 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Machado Backhoe, Inc. has fewer employees than the General Undergroud Contractor median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 8.0 0.0 3 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2017 5.9 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · CA · Stevinson

1,750 General Undergroud Contractor employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 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 William T. Cantrell, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Casella Construction Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR D. W. White Construction, Inc. 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE GCF 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nielsen Farms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Star Nurseries LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Growers Inc 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Marino Ware - Griffin 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor's Sausage Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dme Company 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1705 Harris Co Tollway 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Houston #14 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beavertown Block Co. Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt (Converting Division Houston), LLC 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steven KIA 31 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: 2023, 2018, 2017. 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.