Refining copper, secondary · Texas

Freeport McMoRan Refinery

El Paso, TX · ~224 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freeport McMoRan Refinery runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Refining copper, secondary workplace, earning a grade D.

Freeport McMoRan Refinery: 5.9 TCR = 178% of Refining copper, secondary BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freeport McMoRan Refinery safety composite

Freeport McMoRan Refinery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Freeport McMoRan Refinery: 5.6 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2018

Freeport McMoRan Refinery's TCR rose 2.0 from 5.6 in 2016 to 7.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · El Paso, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 178% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #17/19
  • PHOTO Rubadue Wire Co., Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~224 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rubadue Wire Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freeport McMoRan Refinery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freeport McMoRan Refinery averages 5.9 TCR (178% of the Refining copper, secondary BLS benchmark).

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

Freeport McMoRan Refinery TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2017=4.5 · 2018=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Freeport McMoRan Refinery falls in its industry

198 Refining copper, secondary establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 19 Refining copper, secondary employers in Texas.

Freeport McMoRan Refinery (224 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Freeport McMoRan Refinery
Freeport McMoRan Refinery (224 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Freeport McMoRan Refinery has more employees than the Refining copper, secondary median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2018 7.6 4.6 12 6 0
2017 4.5 3.1 10 0 0
2016 5.6 4.8 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · TX · El Paso

198 Refining copper, secondary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 974 employers in El Paso, 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 Rubadue Wire Co., Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cambridge Lee Industries - Reading 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olin Brass - Somers Thin Strip 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howell Metal Company 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE STgenetics-Navasota 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beyer Construction 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE MLN Company 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE TX-01 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Paso 2,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alegre Home Health Care, LLC EL PASO 1,942 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - El Paso 1,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR MVT Services, LLC 1,798 FTE
NAT-TCR JX Peterbilt - Wadsworth 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NSK19 - North Sky - Olympia 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TriMet Center Street Operations Headquarters 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0011 - Stockton, Ca 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE AC Lowes US 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holland - LO 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE MPS Indianapolis 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Castle (Dence) 224 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: 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.