Petroleum, crude, production (i.e., extraction) · Texas

EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake)

Big Lake, TX · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
1.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake) runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Petroleum, crude, production (i.e., extraction) workplace, earning a grade D.

EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake): 3.4 TCR = 178% of Petroleum, crude, production (i.e., extraction) BLS 1.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake) safety composite

EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake): 0.0 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake)'s TCR rose 7.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 7.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 211111 · Big Lake, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 178% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #74/78
  • PHOTO Sidney Field Office
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sidney Field Office (0.1 TCR gap)

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EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake) averages 3.4 TCR (178% of the Petroleum, crude, production (i.e., extraction) BLS benchmark).

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

EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake) TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=3 · 2020=7.2 · BLS 1.9

Where EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake) falls in its industry

225 Petroleum, crude, production ( establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #74 safest of 78 Petroleum, crude, production ( employers in Texas.

EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake) (30 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake)
EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake) (30 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 0.9

EP Energy - Permian (Big Lake) has fewer employees than the Petroleum, crude, production (i.e., extr median and a higher 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
2020 7.2 0.0 2 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

211111 · TX · Big Lake

225 Petroleum, crude, production (i.e., extraction) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Big Lake, 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 Sidney Field Office 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR prysmian group 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlsbad 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckeye Oil Producing Company 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE BRAZOS RIVER SOD FARM 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coyote Lake Feeders LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dimmitt Feedyard 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Plains Cattle Company LLC - Hereford 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR 124-BIG LAKE 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Lake Brigade Energy Services 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGL WATER SOLUTIONS, LLC-BIG LAKE 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR CIG Big Lake 23 FTE
NAT-TCR MTS Port Huron 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Steel - Elk Grove Village 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NAP 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Neesvigs Burton 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE MainTech - Chicago and Northern Route/Remote Sites 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Werner Electric - Green Bay 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Locust Point Marine Terminal 30 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: 2020, 2019, 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.