Oleic acid esters manufacturing · Hawaii

Pacific Biodiesel Oahu

Kahului, HI · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Pacific Biodiesel Oahu runs at 256% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Oleic acid esters manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
4
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Pacific Biodiesel Oahu's OSHA Total Case Rate of 8.4 to the Oleic acid esters manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (256% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Pacific Biodiesel Oahu's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

246810 20192020 7.73.3 Industry benchmarkPacific Biodiesel Oahu TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 325199.

Where Pacific Biodiesel Oahu falls in its industry

661 Oleic acid esters manufacturin establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Hawaii alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Oleic acid esters manufacturin employers in Hawaii.

Trend analysis for Pacific Biodiesel Oahu

Between 2019 and 2020, Pacific Biodiesel Oahu's Total Case Rate improved from 9.2 to 7.7 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 17% decrease across 1 year of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 7.7, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 9.2, a spread of 1.5 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 2 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.

Summed across those 2 reporting years, Pacific Biodiesel Oahu recorded 4 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 4 injuries shown on this page for Pacific Biodiesel Oahu are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 325199 - Oleic acid esters manufacturing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 52,000 hours worked = 3.85 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Pacific Biodiesel Oahu (this establishment) 8.45 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg
Esters, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 325199
Hawaii state avg (all industries) 4.68 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Pacific Biodiesel Oahu to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 7.7 3.9 2 0 0
2019 9.2 9.2 2 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Pacific Biodiesel Oahu's reported OSHA injury record versus its Oleic acid esters manufacturing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 256% of the Oleic acid esters manufacturing benchmark, Pacific Biodiesel Oahu reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Oleic acid esters manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Pacific Biodiesel Oahu's safety grade?
Pacific Biodiesel Oahu has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 8.4 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Oleic acid esters manufacturing.
How many injuries has Pacific Biodiesel Oahu reported?
Pacific Biodiesel Oahu has reported 4 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 2 years of OSHA data (2020, 2019). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.