Petroleum refineries · Louisiana

Motiva Norco Refinery

Norco, LA · ~864 workers · 2 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

Motiva Norco Refinery runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Petroleum refineries workplace, earning a grade A.

Motiva Norco Refinery: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Petroleum refineries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Motiva Norco Refinery safety composite

Motiva Norco Refinery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Motiva Norco Refinery: 0.1 → 0.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 0.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Motiva Norco Refinery's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.1 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324110 · Norco, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/25
  • PHOTO Big Spring Refinery
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~864 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Spring Refinery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Motiva Norco Refinery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Motiva Norco Refinery averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Petroleum refineries BLS benchmark).

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

Motiva Norco Refinery TCR series: 2016=0.1 · 2017=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Motiva Norco Refinery falls in its industry

198 Petroleum refineries establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 25 Petroleum refineries employers in Louisiana.

Motiva Norco Refinery (864 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Motiva Norco Refinery
Motiva Norco Refinery (864 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Motiva Norco Refinery has more employees than the Petroleum refineries median and a lower 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
2017 0.7 0.0 1 1 0
2016 0.1 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · LA · Norco

198 Petroleum refineries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 36 employers in Norco, 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 Big Spring Refinery 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shell Chemicals Norco 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HollyFrontier Navajo Refining LLC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detroit Refinery 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Monroe LA (Mill) 864 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shamrock Energy Solutions 865 FTE
STATE-SIZE University Hospital and Clinics 860 FTE
STATE-SIZE Isle of Capri Casino 871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Equilon Enterprises LLC dba Shell Oil Products US - Norco Refinery 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR Equilon Enterprises LLC dba Shell Oil Product US - Norco Refinery 851 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Charles Refinery, Valero Refining - New Orleans, LLC 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valero St. Charles Refinery 543 FTE
NAT-TCR 6017-Corp Loc - USA United States - Ast 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ups Technology Headquarters & Datacenter (Njrar) 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nexeo Solutions - Willow Springs 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Interiors-Lake Suzy 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas South (Nvlve) 864 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Nuys Hub (Cavan) 864 FTE
NAT-SIZE RPM xConstruction, LLC 864 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tech Data Tempe 864 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: 2017, 2016. 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.