Crude petroleum refineries · Oklahoma

Ponca City Refinery

Name: Ponca City Refinery Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ponca City, OK · ~658 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ponca City Refinery runs at 4% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Crude petroleum refineries workplace, earning a grade A.

Ponca City Refinery: 0.1 TCR = 4% of Crude petroleum refineries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ponca City Refinery safety composite

Ponca City Refinery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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).

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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%).

Ponca City Refinery held a steady TCR band

Ponca City Refinery's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.3 · 2019=0.1 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324110 · Ponca City, OK AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 4% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #2/7
PHOTO Total Petrochemicals…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~658 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc., Port Arthur Refinery (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Ponca City Refinery averages 0.1 TCR (4% of the Crude petroleum refineries BLS benchmark).

Ponca City Refinery TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2019=0.1 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Ponca City Refinery falls in its industry

198 Crude petroleum refineries establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oklahoma alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Crude petroleum refineries employers in Oklahoma.

Ponca City Refinery (658 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Ponca City Refinery has more employees than the Crude 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
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	0.1	0.1	1
2016	0.3	0.0	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · OK · Ponca City

198 Crude petroleum refineries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,320 rated employers in Oklahoma with headcount on file · 57 employers in Ponca City, OK · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc., Port Arthur Refinery	PORT ARTHUR, TX	0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Borger Refinery	BORGER, TX	0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pascagoula Refinery	PASCAGOULA, MS	0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Valero Bill Greehey Refinery West Plant	CORPUS CHRISTI, TX	0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	ATC Drivetrain LVT	OKLAHOMA CITY	658 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Saint Francis Hospital South	TULSA	656 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ResourceOne	TULSA	661 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Simulation	BROKEN ARROW	662 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dorada Foods	Ponca City	724 FTE
CITY-NEAR	823	Ponca City	357 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 823	Ponca City	348 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Albertsons Ponca City Distribution Center	Ponca City	221 FTE
NAT-TCR	CA-16	Sacramento, CA	0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	NJ-01	Pine Brook, NJ	0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	NV-01	Las Vegas, NV	0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Corporate Office - H1	Pleasant Prairie, WI	0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Curtis-Maruyasu America, Inc.	Lebanon, KY	658 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Attentive Care of Albany, Inc.	Albany, NY	658 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Gates Corporation	Siloam Springs, AR	658 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital	San Diego, CA	658 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: 2020, 2019, 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.