Crude petroleum refineries · New Jersey

Paulsboro Refining Company

Paulsboro, NJ · ~384 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paulsboro Refining Company runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Crude petroleum refineries workplace, earning a grade A.

Paulsboro Refining Company: 0.7 TCR = 20% of Crude petroleum refineries BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paulsboro Refining Company safety composite

Paulsboro Refining Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 0.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Paulsboro Refining Company held a steady TCR band

Paulsboro Refining Company's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.4 in 2016 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.4 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=0.3 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=0.4 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324110 · Paulsboro, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO HollyFrontier El Dor…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~384 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HollyFrontier El Dorado Refining LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paulsboro Refining Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paulsboro Refining Company averages 0.7 TCR (20% of the Crude petroleum refineries BLS benchmark).

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

Paulsboro Refining Company TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=0.3 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=0.4 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Paulsboro Refining Company falls in its industry

198 Crude petroleum refineries establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Crude petroleum refineries employers in New Jersey.

Paulsboro Refining Company (384 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Paulsboro Refining Company
Paulsboro Refining Company (384 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Paulsboro Refining Company has more 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
2024 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2023 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.6 0.6 2 0 0
2021 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2020 0.8 0.6 4 0 0
2019 1.5 1.0 9 0 0
2018 0.3 0.2 2 0 0
2017 1.1 0.5 6 0 0
2016 0.4 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · NJ · Paulsboro

198 Crude petroleum refineries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 26 employers in Paulsboro, NJ · 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 HollyFrontier El Dorado Refining LLC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BP Whiting Refinery 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coffeyville Resources 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coffeyville Resources Refining and Marketing 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wayne Garage 384 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nassau Park 384 FTE
STATE-SIZE 34-321893026-1 383 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9156 - Target.com Burlington NJ TFC 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR PA Sort Center (Paulsboro) 1,670 FTE
CITY-NEAR McGrory Glass, Inc. 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paulsboro Lubricants Plant 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Axeon Specialty Products - Paulsboro Refinery 91 FTE
NAT-TCR Aurora Flight Sciences Virginia 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Visual Display Innovations, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacksonville Holiday Inn 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Environmental Service Group (NY), Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shared Medical Services 384 FTE
NAT-SIZE James Hardie Building Products, Peru IL 384 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleburne 384 FTE
NAT-SIZE Knauf Insulation Plant 1 384 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.