Crude petroleum refineries · West Virginia

Ergon-West Virginia, Inc

Newell, WV · ~195 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ergon-West Virginia, Inc runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Crude petroleum refineries workplace, earning a grade A.

Ergon-West Virginia, Inc: 0.8 TCR = 24% of Crude petroleum refineries BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ergon-West Virginia, Inc safety composite

Ergon-West Virginia, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2016→2020

Ergon-West Virginia, Inc injury rate improved

Ergon-West Virginia, Inc's TCR fell 1.9 from 1.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=2.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324110 · Newell, WV AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P34
  • PHOTO Calumet Shreveport R…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~195 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Calumet Shreveport Refinery, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ergon-West Virginia, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ergon-West Virginia, Inc averages 0.8 TCR (24% of the Crude petroleum refineries BLS benchmark).

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

Ergon-West Virginia, Inc TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=2 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Ergon-West Virginia, Inc falls in its industry

198 Crude petroleum refineries establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ergon-West Virginia, Inc (195 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5 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 05001,0001,500 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Ergon-West Virginia, Inc
Ergon-West Virginia, Inc (195 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Ergon-West Virginia, Inc has fewer employees than the Crude petroleum refineries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.5. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.0 2.0 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.9 1.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · WV · Newell

198 Crude petroleum refineries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 9 employers in Newell, WV · 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 Calumet Shreveport Refinery, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TYLER REFINING 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delaware City Refining Company 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shelly Materials, Inc. - Liquid Division 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Virginia's Choice - Keyser 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wheeling Plant 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Simex Vinyl Extrusions 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silgan Plastics 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marsh Bellofram 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Fiesta Tableware Company 342 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advantage Tank Lines 20030 Newell 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR ECG, Inc. - ISO Services Newell 55 FTE
NAT-TCR Eco-services Houston 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Thompson 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR D1 Materials Lab 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TX029 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northwestern Medicine Home Health & Hospice 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE C.R. Laine Furniture 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Renewable Water Resources 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Plant 23 195 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, 2017, 2016. 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.