Benzene made in petroleum refineries · Louisiana

Shell Geismar

Geismar, LA · ~663 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shell Geismar runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Benzene made in petroleum refineries workplace, earning a grade A.

Shell Geismar: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Benzene made in petroleum refineries BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shell Geismar safety composite

Shell Geismar scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Shell Geismar held a steady TCR band

Shell Geismar's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.6 in 2017 to 0.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.6 · 2018=0.3 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324110 · Geismar, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #20/25
  • PHOTO Flint Hills Resources
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~663 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flint Hills Resources (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shell Geismar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shell Geismar averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Benzene made in petroleum refineries BLS benchmark).

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

Shell Geismar TCR series: 2017=0.6 · 2018=0.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Shell Geismar falls in its industry

198 Benzene made in petroleum refi establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #20 safest of 25 Benzene made in petroleum refi employers in Louisiana.

Shell Geismar (663 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 Geismar
Shell Geismar (663 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Shell Geismar has more employees than the Benzene made in 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
2021 0.5 0.3 1 2 0
2020 1.4 1.2 3 6 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.3 0.1 1 1 0
2017 0.6 0.3 1 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · LA · Geismar

198 Benzene made in petroleum refineries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 127 employers in Geismar, 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 Flint Hills Resources 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ExxonMobil Billings Refinery 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phillips 66 Bayway Refinery 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corpus Christi Refinery East Plant 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Goodwill industries of Southeastern Louisiana 667 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at Shell Chemical LP Geismar LA 674 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6048 680 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Dow Plaq - Poly B 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR BASF 1,212 FTE
CITY-NEAR BASF - Geismar 1,143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brock Services Geismar LA 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shell Chemical 622 FTE
NAT-TCR Vertiv Services Inc - Southeast Region 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Colorado County Oil 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lehman Roberts Plant 7 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Daybreak Industrial, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10155) 663 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZDUR 663 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scott Electric 663 FTE
NAT-SIZE 350978-Bethpage Ny P&Dc 663 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.