Electrical contractors · California

Staples & Associates

Bakersfield, CA · ~123 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Staples & Associates runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Electrical contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Staples & Associates: 2.8 TCR = 100% of Electrical contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Staples & Associates safety composite

Staples & Associates scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Staples & Associates: 2.5 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2020

Staples & Associates's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.5 in 2018 to 3.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 100% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #273/548
  • PHOTO BECC Electric
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BECC Electric (0.0 TCR gap)

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Staples & Associates in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Staples & Associates averages 2.8 TCR (100% of the Electrical contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Staples & Associates TCR series: 2018=2.5 · 2020=3.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Staples & Associates falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical contractors establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #273 safest of 548 Electrical contractors employers in California.

Staples & Associates (123 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Staples & Associates
Staples & Associates (123 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Staples & Associates has more employees than the Electrical contractors 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
2020 3.1 3.1 0 2 0
2018 2.5 2.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · CA · Bakersfield

4,550 Electrical 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 BECC Electric 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Synergy Electric, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Electric Works 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Electric Services LLC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Four Star Fruit 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE CADY2 - 05 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Vineyards 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeBernardi Bros 123 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 Praxair Distribution Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Colorado Springs (GCR) 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clay & Bailey Manufacturing Company 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rcp West End Co-Op Building 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carlisle Syntec - Senatobia 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Health Humility House 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant # 6 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foremost Farms - Richland Center 123 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: 2020, 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.