Greases, petroleum lubricating, made from refined petroleum · Texas

Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant

Port Arthur, TX · ~132 workers · 7 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

Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Greases, petroleum lubricating, made from refined petroleum workplace, earning a grade A.

Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Greases, petroleum lubricating, made from refined petroleum BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant safety composite

Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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 - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.67× in 2024

Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324191 · Port Arthur, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #3/17
  • PHOTO Valvoline Deer Park
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valvoline Deer Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Greases, petroleum lubricating, 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 - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant falls in its industry

171 Greases, petroleum lubricating establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 17 Greases, petroleum lubricating employers in Texas.

Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant (132 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 0100200300400 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant
Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant (132 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Downstream & Chemicals - Port Arthur, TX Lubricants Plant has more employees than the Greases, petroleum lubricating, made fro 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
2024 1.6 1.1 3 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324191 · TX · Port Arthur

171 Greases, petroleum lubricating, made from refined petroleum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 122 employers in Port Arthur, 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 Valvoline Deer Park 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TotalEnergies Marketing USA, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ExxonMobil Blending and Packaging Plant 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Downstream & Chemicals - Belle Chasse, LA Plant 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tolk/Plant X Station 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Morrison 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paragon 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arch-Con Corporation - Houston 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Motiva Enterprises LLC 1,494 FTE
CITY-NEAR Port Arthur Liquefaction Project 1,428 FTE
CITY-NEAR Echo Maintenance LLC 937 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Premcor Refining Group INC 773 FTE
NAT-TCR Free State Lumber Company, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincolnland Agri-Energy, LLC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Region 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Generating Station 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Franklin, KY 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wrigley Field 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA IL Moline Plant 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conyers 132 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.