Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) · California

Sycamore Cogeneration Facility

Bakersfield, CA · ~94 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sycamore Cogeneration Facility runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) workplace, earning a grade C.

Sycamore Cogeneration Facility: 1.1 TCR = 95% of Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sycamore Cogeneration Facility safety composite

Sycamore Cogeneration Facility scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

Sycamore Cogeneration Facility: 0.0 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Sycamore Cogeneration Facility's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221112 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/41
  • PHOTO Midulla Generating S…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midulla Generating Station (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sycamore Cogeneration Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sycamore Cogeneration Facility averages 1.1 TCR (95% of the Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) BLS benchmark).

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

Sycamore Cogeneration Facility TCR series: 2018=0 · 2021=1.6 · 2023=1.9 · BLS 1.2

Where Sycamore Cogeneration Facility falls in its industry

846 Electric power generation, fos establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 41 Electric power generation, fos employers in California.

Sycamore Cogeneration Facility (94 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sycamore Cogeneration Facility
Sycamore Cogeneration Facility (94 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Sycamore Cogeneration Facility has more employees than the Electric power generation, fossil fuel ( median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 1.9 0.0 2 0 0
2021 1.6 0.8 1 1 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221112 · CA · Bakersfield

846 Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) 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 Midulla Generating Station 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Power Plant 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Odessa-Ector Generating Station 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAES : OM - Eagle Point 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MORALES FARM LABOR SERVICE 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robinson Enterprises, Inc 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Javier Martinez Contracting 94 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 Fargo Hilton Garden Inn 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hawthorne Gardening - Gresham 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sterling Oaks Rehabilitation 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Retail Administration 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Warroad Elementary School 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Q-Tran, Inc. 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elwood, IL (Samsung) 171 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Virtua Pulmonary - Marlton 94 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, 2021, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.