Crude petroleum from oil sand · Texas

Contango Oil and Gas

Houston, TX · ~283 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
1.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Contango Oil and Gas runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Crude petroleum from oil sand workplace, earning a grade A.

Contango Oil and Gas: 0.3 TCR = 15% of Crude petroleum from oil sand BLS 1.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Contango Oil and Gas safety composite

Contango Oil and Gas scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Contango Oil and Gas: 0.0 → 0.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 0.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.03× in 2021

Contango Oil and Gas's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 211111 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #16/78
  • PHOTO SandRidge Operating …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~283 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SandRidge Operating - Corporate Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Contango Oil and Gas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Contango Oil and Gas averages 0.3 TCR (15% of the Crude petroleum from oil sand BLS benchmark).

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

Contango Oil and Gas TCR series: 2017=0 · 2021=0.6 · BLS 1.9

Where Contango Oil and Gas falls in its industry

225 Crude petroleum from oil sand establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 78 Crude petroleum from oil sand employers in Texas.

Contango Oil and Gas (283 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate Contango Oil and Gas
Contango Oil and Gas (283 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 0.9

Contango Oil and Gas has more employees than the Crude petroleum from oil sand median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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
2021 0.6 0.6 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

211111 · TX · Houston

225 Crude petroleum from oil sand employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 SandRidge Operating - Corporate Office 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williston 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KFOC-Office 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ovintiv USA Inc. - Uinta Office 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Capform FL 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermon Inc. (Houston) 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Sausage Company LLC 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valero Bill Greehey Refinery East Plant 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC-035 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SYGMA Corporate Office 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Christman Company - Michigan 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Casa Alcaldia 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sutter Care at Home (247-ROSE) 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dcor LLC 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glynn Electric 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hendersonville Main Office 283 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: 2021, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.