Heating oil dealers, direct selling · Connecticut

The Patterson Oil Company

Torrington, CT · ~116 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Patterson Oil Company runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Heating oil dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade B.

The Patterson Oil Company: 1.7 TCR = 50% of Heating oil dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Patterson Oil Company safety composite

The Patterson Oil Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

The Patterson Oil Company: 0.0 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2022

The Patterson Oil Company's TCR rose 3.4 from 0.0 in 2021 to 3.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Torrington, CT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 50% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #2/21
  • PHOTO Meritum Energy GP, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meritum Energy GP, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Patterson Oil Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Patterson Oil Company averages 1.7 TCR (50% of the Heating oil dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

The Patterson Oil Company TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=3.4 · BLS 3.4

Where The Patterson Oil Company falls in its industry

366 Heating oil dealers, direct se establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 21 Heating oil dealers, direct se employers in Connecticut.

The Patterson Oil Company (116 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate The Patterson Oil Company
The Patterson Oil Company (116 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

The Patterson Oil Company has more employees than the Heating oil dealers, direct selling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2022 3.4 2.3 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · CT · Torrington

366 Heating oil dealers, direct selling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 87 employers in Torrington, CT · 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 Meritum Energy GP, LLC 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Circleville 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interstate Gas Supply, LLC Columbus HEC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGas - ACE-Pahrump, NV 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conn Acoustics, Inc. 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orafol Avon CT 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Proton Energy Systems, Inc. 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE INFRA-METALS CO - CT 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHARLOTTE HUNGERFORD HOSPITAL 949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charlotte Hungerford Hospital (540) 924 FTE
CITY-NEAR O&G Entire Company 801 FTE
CITY-NEAR O&G Industries, Inc. 783 FTE
NAT-TCR JJC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TUS-ODFL 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ARCH Medical Solutions 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rowland Coffee Roasters Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #816 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lynwood Nursing and Rehab 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Super 1 Foods 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE 231 - Olathe 116 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: 2022, 2021. 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.