Well drilling (i.e., oil, gas, water intake wells) on a contract basis · Texas

Patriot Drilling LLC

Midland, TX · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
1.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Patriot Drilling LLC runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Well drilling (i.e., oil, gas, water intake wells) on a contract basis workplace, earning a grade F.

Patriot Drilling LLC: 5.1 TCR = 268% of Well drilling (i.e., oil, gas, water intake wells) on a contract basis BLS 1.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Patriot Drilling LLC safety composite

Patriot Drilling LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Patriot Drilling LLC: 1.3 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2017

Patriot Drilling LLC's TCR rose 7.5 from 1.3 in 2016 to 8.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 213111 · Midland, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 268% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #45/48
  • PHOTO Rig 126
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rig 126 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Patriot Drilling LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Patriot Drilling LLC averages 5.1 TCR (268% of the Well drilling (i.e., oil, gas, water intake wells) on a contract basis BLS benchmark).

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

Patriot Drilling LLC TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=8.8 · BLS 1.9

Where Patriot Drilling LLC falls in its industry

171 Well drilling (i.e., oil, gas, establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 48 Well drilling (i.e., oil, gas, employers in Texas.

Patriot Drilling LLC (61 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Patriot Drilling LLC
Patriot Drilling LLC (61 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Patriot Drilling LLC has fewer employees than the Well drilling (i.e., oil, gas, water int median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 8.8 3.9 9 0 0
2016 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

213111 · TX · Midland

171 Well drilling (i.e., oil, gas, water intake wells) on a contract basis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 359 employers in Midland, 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 Rig 126 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paul Cormier Well Service Co 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burrows Bros. Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snow's Oil Field Service, Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Muleshoe Dairy LLC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXOMA SVC CTR 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEC-Cedar Park 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE CES Houston WestOffice RRM5 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX Midland 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midland Memorial Hospital 2,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midland Jobsites 1,716 FTE
CITY-NEAR ProPetro Services, Inc. 1,666 FTE
NAT-TCR 0080 - Lafayette, La 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5139 N. Charleston, 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR InfuScience, Inc. - Charleston, SC - 2415 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Preferred Laundry Service 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of South Kansas City LLC 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Smithville LLC 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kimber Mfg., Inc. 161 Railroad 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE 532 Greenville 61 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.