Petrochemical feedstocks made in petroleum refineries · Louisiana

Shell Chemicals Norco

Norco, LA · ~293 workers · 3 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

Shell Chemicals Norco runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Petrochemical feedstocks made in petroleum refineries workplace, earning a grade A.

Shell Chemicals Norco: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Petrochemical feedstocks made in petroleum refineries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shell Chemicals Norco safety composite

Shell Chemicals Norco scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Shell Chemicals Norco: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Shell Chemicals Norco's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.97× 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 0.4 DART
  • RANK #17/25
  • PHOTO HollyFrontier Navajo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~293 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HollyFrontier Navajo Refining LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shell Chemicals Norco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shell Chemicals Norco averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Petrochemical feedstocks made in petroleum refineries BLS benchmark).

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

Shell Chemicals Norco TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Shell Chemicals Norco falls in its industry

198 Petrochemical feedstocks made establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #17 safest of 25 Petrochemical feedstocks made employers in Louisiana.

Shell Chemicals Norco (293 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 Shell Chemicals Norco
Shell Chemicals Norco (293 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Shell Chemicals Norco has fewer employees than the Petrochemical feedstocks made in petrole 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
2024 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2023 0.4 0.4 0 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · LA · Norco

198 Petrochemical feedstocks made in 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 HollyFrontier Navajo Refining LLC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Three Rivers Refinery 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Refining Company - Texas City 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Spring Refinery 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 170 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE 310 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6932 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DNO2 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Equilon Enterprises LLC dba Shell Oil Products US - Norco Refinery 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR Motiva Norco Refinery 864 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
NAT-TCR Attorney's Office 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Direct Supply, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Allied Tube and Conduit Corporation 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Alumiworks Inc 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Richland Community College 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barrelhouse 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Bruce Company of Wisconsin 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE JVKS Harvest Solutions, LLC dba: AgSocio 293 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. 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.