Oil and gas drilling · Texas

Citadel Drilling Ltd

Odessa, TX · ~124 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
1.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Citadel Drilling Ltd runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Oil and gas drilling workplace, earning a grade B.

Citadel Drilling Ltd: 1.3 TCR = 67% of Oil and gas drilling BLS 1.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Citadel Drilling Ltd safety composite

Citadel Drilling Ltd scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Citadel Drilling Ltd: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.49× in 2024

Citadel Drilling Ltd's TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 213111 · Odessa, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 67% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #20/48
  • PHOTO Major Drilling America
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Major Drilling America (0.0 TCR gap)

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Citadel Drilling Ltd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Citadel Drilling Ltd averages 1.3 TCR (67% of the Oil and gas drilling BLS benchmark).

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

Citadel Drilling Ltd TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=1 · 2023=1 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 1.9

Where Citadel Drilling Ltd falls in its industry

171 Oil and gas drilling establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 48 Oil and gas drilling employers in Texas.

Citadel Drilling Ltd (124 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,5002,000 012345 Average employees Total Case Rate Citadel Drilling Ltd
Citadel Drilling Ltd (124 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Citadel Drilling Ltd has more employees than the Oil and gas drilling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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
2024 2.8 1.9 6 0 0
2023 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2022 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2021 1.6 1.6 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

213111 · TX · Odessa

171 Oil and gas drilling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 298 employers in Odessa, 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 Major Drilling America 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Colorado Well Service 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cactus Drilling Rig 142 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ensign United States Drilling Inc. (CA) 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cisco Logistics 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Bellaire 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stoneridge Solar 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE T&D Moravits & Company 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR H&P U.S. Land - West 2,858 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saulsbury Industries Inc. 2,602 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Odessa, TX 2,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR Odessa 8200 E IH-20, Odessa, TX 79706 858 FTE
NAT-TCR Re-group Ashland 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Suncoast Restoration and Waterproofing, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodland Elementary 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Morton Salt Fairless Hills 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Standard Textile Carolina, Inc. 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.S.A.P. Services, Inc. 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Chambrel Roswell 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Star Forge Co 124 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, 2020. 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.