Copper smelting and refining, primary · Texas

ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery

Amarillo, TX · ~234 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Copper smelting and refining, primary workplace, earning a grade D.

ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Copper smelting and refining, primary BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery safety composite

ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery: 2.3 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2020

ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery's TCR rose 3.3 from 2.3 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331410 · Amarillo, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Phelps Dodge Refinin…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation (0.1 TCR gap)

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ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Copper smelting and refining, primary BLS benchmark).

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

ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery falls in its industry

57 Copper smelting and refining, establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Copper smelting and refining, employers in Texas.

ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery (234 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery
ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery (234 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.6

ASARCO-Amarillo Copper Refinery has more employees than the Copper smelting and refining, primary median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 5.6 5.6 5 0 0
2019 4.7 2.6 11 0 0
2018 4.5 0.7 12 1 0
2016 2.3 0.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331410 · TX · Amarillo

57 Copper smelting and refining, primary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 351 employers in Amarillo, TX · 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 Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strohecker Incorporated 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SCM Metal Products 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howmet Aerospace - Canton MPD 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Baker Triangle Austin 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mine Service Inc. 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0313 - Int. Doors-Garland 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE O'Neil Digital Solutions - Plano 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amarillo Plant 3,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR BSA Hospital LLC 2,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-12071000-12071 1,839 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-30 1,492 FTE
NAT-TCR All-Star-Waterbury 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Triumph Composite Systems 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Arizona Polymer Flooring 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ABQ Remarketing - 34RK 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE MKB Construction Inc. 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Business Aviation : Springfield (SPI) 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patterson Logistics Services 1 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harper - Lake Mary 234 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, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.