Brake fluids, petroleum, made from refined petroleum · Louisiana

Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant

Belle Chasse, LA · ~408 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Brake fluids, petroleum, made from refined petroleum workplace, earning a grade A.

Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant: 0.5 TCR = 14% of Brake fluids, petroleum, made from refined petroleum BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant safety composite

Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant: 0.2 → 0.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 0.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.2 in 2017 to 0.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324191 · Belle Chasse, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 14% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO Afton Chemical Corpo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~408 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Afton Chemical Corporation - Houston, TX (0.1 TCR gap)

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Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant averages 0.5 TCR (14% of the Brake fluids, petroleum, made from refined petroleum BLS benchmark).

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

Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant TCR series: 2017=0.2 · 2018=0.5 · 2019=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant falls in its industry

171 Brake fluids, petroleum, made establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 9 Brake fluids, petroleum, made employers in Louisiana.

Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant (408 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant
Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant (408 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant has more employees than the Brake fluids, petroleum, made from refin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2019 0.7 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.5 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.2 0.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324191 · LA · Belle Chasse

171 Brake fluids, petroleum, made from refined petroleum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 35 employers in Belle Chasse, LA · 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 Afton Chemical Corporation - Houston, TX 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CITGO Petroleum Corporation 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TotalEnergies Marketing USA, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PennStar - Northampton 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Bayer 408 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHVCX0769 SHV - UPS 408 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 409 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1163 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alliance Refinery 455 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chevron Oronite Company LLC - Oak Point Plant 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR BrandSafway, LLC - P66 Alliance Refinery - Belle Chasse 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR OMI Environmental Solutions 201 FTE
NAT-TCR Newton Drive 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Valley Plant 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Support Services 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 22 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bluestem Irvine Distribution Complex - South Bldg. 408 FTE
NAT-SIZE Global Specialty Fulfillment : UCA4 408 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smithton DC 408 FTE
NAT-SIZE Villa Park Landscape 408 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.