Industry profile · NAICS 221112

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

Workplace injury rates across 1,128 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

1,128
Employers
2.0
Avg TCR
1.2
BLS benchmark
5,297
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) average 2.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.7 times the BLS national benchmark of 1.2.

2.0
avg TCR · reporting employers
1.2
BLS national benchmark
1,128
employers reporting
5,297
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) Safety Data Reveals

The Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) sector (NAICS 221112) encompasses 1,128 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 5,297 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 1.2 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 2.0 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
MC OpCo, LLC Bangor, PA B 0.8
City of Vinton Vinton, IA B 0.8
Entergy NISCO Plant Westlake, LA B 0.8
00527 Salt Lake Serv Ctr Salt Lake City, UT B 0.8
Dolet Hills Power Station Mansfield, LA B 0.8
Bethlehem Energy Center Bethlehem, PA B 0.7
Woodsdale Generating Station Trenton, OH B 0.7
Bay Shore Oregon, OH B 0.7
Prairie State Generating Company - Power Block Marissa, IL B 0.7
Cane Run Louisville, KY B 0.7
Quail Run Energy Center Odessa, TX B 0.7
AMEREN MISSOURI - Sioux Energy Ctr Gen and Bud West Alton, MO B 0.7
ENGIE Buckeye Operations, LLC Houston, TX B 0.7
Manatee Plant Parrish, FL B 0.7
Metcalf Energy Center San Jose, CA B 0.7
Zeeland Generation Zeeland, MI B 0.7
St. Clair Power Plant East China Twsp, MI B 0.7
Mustang Power Plant Oklahoma City, OK B 0.7
Altavista Power Station Altavista, VA B 0.7
Mustang Station Denver City, TX B 0.7
Hugo Plant Ft. Towson, OK B 0.7
AMEREN MISSOURI - Rush Island Energy Ctr Gen and Bud Festus, MO B 0.7
Pleasants Willow Island, WV B 0.7
00850 Portland Power Portland, OR B 0.7
Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency Rochester, MN B 0.7
Dogwood Energy Facility Pleasant Hill, MO B 0.7
00216 Preston Office Preston, ID B 0.7
Chestfld Pw St Chester, VA B 0.7
T. E. S. Filer City Station Filer City, MI B 0.7
Cunningham/Maddox Station Hobbs, NM B 0.7
Kendall Energy Facility Minooka, IL B 0.7
Midland Cogeneration Venture Midland, MI B 0.7
Greene County Steam Plant - APC Forkland, AL B 0.7
Greens Bayou Houston, TX B 0.7
NRG - Cedar Bayou Baytown, TX B 0.7
Tenaska Gateway Generating Station Long Branch, TX B 0.7
Blythe Energy Inc Blythe, CA B 0.7
Brandywine Brandywine, MD B 0.7
Pt Arth Sabine Orange, TX B 0.7
Neal Energy Center Salix, IA B 0.7
East Bend Generating Station Union, KY B 0.7
Rowan Salisbury, NC B 0.6
Little Rock Campus (Headquarters) Little Rock, AR B 0.6
JH Campbell Annex West Olive, MI B 0.6
Fresh Meadow Power / Ne, LLC Fresh Meadows, NY B 0.6
Williams Steam Plant Goose Creek, SC B 0.6
Forney Power Plant Forney, TX B 0.6
Brame Energy Center Lena, LA B 0.6
HQ Fairbanks, AK B 0.6
00547 Wasatch Restoration Center Salt Lake City, UT B 0.6
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This sector averages 2.0 against a BLS benchmark of 1.2 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.