Crude oil refining · Texas

Big Spring Refinery

Big Spring, TX · ~232 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Spring Refinery runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Crude oil refining workplace, earning a grade A.

Big Spring Refinery: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Crude oil refining BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Spring Refinery safety composite

Big Spring Refinery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Big Spring Refinery: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 0.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024

Big Spring Refinery's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324110 · Big Spring, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #24/41
  • PHOTO Motiva Norco Refinery
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~232 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Motiva Norco Refinery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Spring Refinery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Spring Refinery averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Crude oil refining BLS benchmark).

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

Big Spring Refinery TCR series: 2018=0 · 2021=0.4 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Big Spring Refinery falls in its industry

198 Crude oil refining establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 41 Crude oil refining employers in Texas.

Big Spring Refinery (232 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5 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 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Big Spring Refinery
Big Spring Refinery (232 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Big Spring Refinery has fewer employees than the Crude oil refining median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.5. 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
2024 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.9 0.6 3 0 0
2021 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · TX · Big Spring

198 Crude oil refining employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 32 employers in Big Spring, 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 Motiva Norco Refinery 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shell Chemicals Norco 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HollyFrontier Navajo Refining LLC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detroit Refinery 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE BP America Production Co., BPX Energy, Houston Office 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE Occidental (OxyChem) Ingleside TX 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bosworth Steel Erectors, LLC 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chamberlin Austin LLC 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Bureau of Prisons 1,072 FTE
CITY-NEAR 513 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 513 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scenic Mountain Medical Center 193 FTE
NAT-TCR Airport Location 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Infrastructure US Offices 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid Atlantic Power Specialists, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NELA 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE ESCO Construction Co 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whittier Pacific Care Center 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anaheim Office 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willard-Cybulski Correctional Institution 232 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.