Oil (i.e., petroleum) refineries · Washington

Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery

Anacortes, WA · ~498 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Oil (i.e., petroleum) refineries workplace, earning a grade A.

Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery: 0.3 TCR = 11% of Oil (i.e., petroleum) refineries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery safety composite

Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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 Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery held a steady TCR band

Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.5 in 2017 to 0.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.5 · 2020=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324110 · Anacortes, WA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO Placid Refining Comp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~498 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Placid Refining Company LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery averages 0.3 TCR (11% of the Oil (i.e., petroleum) refineries BLS benchmark).

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

Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery TCR series: 2017=0.5 · 2020=0.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery falls in its industry

198 Oil (i.e., petroleum) refineri establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Oil (i.e., petroleum) refineri employers in Washington.

Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery (498 employees, TCR 0.3) 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 Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery
Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery (498 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery has more employees than the Oil (i.e., 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2020 0.2 0.0 0 1 0
2017 0.5 0.2 0 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · WA · Anacortes

198 Oil (i.e., petroleum) refineries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 35 employers in Anacortes, WA · 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 Placid Refining Company LLC 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ExxonMobil Oil Corp., Joliet Refinery 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flint Hills Resources - West Plant 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HF Sinclair 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ply Gem Windows - Auburn 498 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinc County Information Technology 498 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - BFI8 497 FTE
STATE-SIZE Samaritan Hospital 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Island Hospital 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR HF Sinclair - Puget Sound refinery 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anacortes Refinery 422 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dakota Creek Industries Inc. 230 FTE
NAT-TCR Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative Inc 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Home Care, Inc Lakeville 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Broken Arrow - BlackHawk Industrial 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Samsung C&T America Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Stonington 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tuscaloosa Plant 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beechwood Homes 498 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.