Petroleum Refining · California

Shell Martinez Refinery

Martinez, CA · ~740 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Shell Martinez Refinery runs at 2% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Petroleum Refining workplace, earning a grade A.

Shell Martinez Refinery: 0.1 TCR = 2% of Petroleum Refining BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shell Martinez Refinery safety composite

Shell Martinez Refinery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% 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%).

Shell Martinez Refinery held a steady TCR band

Shell Martinez Refinery's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324110 · Martinez, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 2% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/18
  • PHOTO PDV Midwest Refining…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~740 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PDV Midwest Refining, L.L.C. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shell Martinez Refinery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shell Martinez Refinery averages 0.1 TCR (2% of the Petroleum Refining BLS benchmark).

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

Shell Martinez Refinery TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Shell Martinez Refinery falls in its industry

198 Petroleum Refining establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 18 Petroleum Refining employers in California.

Shell Martinez Refinery (740 employees, TCR 0.1) 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 Martinez Refinery
Shell Martinez Refinery (740 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Shell Martinez Refinery has more employees than the Petroleum Refining 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
2018 0.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · CA · Martinez

198 Petroleum Refining employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 72 employers in Martinez, CA · 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 PDV Midwest Refining, L.L.C. 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chevron El Segundo 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chalmette Refining, L.L.C. 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ExxonMobil Beaumont Refinery 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Durant Harvesting 740 FTE
STATE-SIZE Security Paving Co. Inc. 740 FTE
STATE-SIZE LADWP 433 TEMPLE 741 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Drywall Co. 739 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 58 2,508 FTE
CITY-NEAR Contra Costa Regional Medical Center 1,529 FTE
CITY-NEAR Contra Costa Electric, Inc. 619 FTE
CITY-NEAR Martinez Refining Company LLC 594 FTE
NAT-TCR HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Manati 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Janus Global Operations LLC 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dominos Pizza 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Jasper Ventures Inc 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Chicago Lighthouse ITA Call Center 740 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brent 740 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Park Hub (Ilfra) 740 FTE
NAT-SIZE Welspun Tubular 740 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: 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.