Waxes, petroleum, made from refined petroleum · Texas

Trecora Chemical

Pasadena, TX · ~106 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trecora Chemical runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Waxes, petroleum, made from refined petroleum workplace, earning a grade C.

Trecora Chemical: 3.5 TCR = 107% of Waxes, petroleum, made from refined petroleum BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trecora Chemical safety composite

Trecora Chemical scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2016→2022

Trecora Chemical injury rate improved

Trecora Chemical's TCR fell 2.3 from 4.2 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.2 · 2017=7.2 · 2019=0.9 · 2022=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324199 · Pasadena, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Oxbow Calcining LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oxbow Calcining LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trecora Chemical in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trecora Chemical averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the Waxes, petroleum, made from refined petroleum BLS benchmark).

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

Trecora Chemical TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=7.2 · 2019=0.9 · 2022=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Trecora Chemical falls in its industry

52 Waxes, petroleum, made from re establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Waxes, petroleum, made from re employers in Texas.

Trecora Chemical (106 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Trecora Chemical
Trecora Chemical (106 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Trecora Chemical has more employees than the Waxes, petroleum, made from refined petr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2019 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 7.2 3.6 8 0 0
2016 4.2 2.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324199 · TX · Pasadena

52 Waxes, petroleum, made from refined petroleum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 385 employers in Pasadena, TX · 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 Oxbow Calcining LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brightmark Plastics Renewal Indiana LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Charles 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oxbow Calcining Port Arthur Calciner 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dallas (TGM) 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Ft Bend 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Katy Electric Service Center 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE BMWC Constructors Gulf Coast, Inc. 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSC Group 4,297 FTE
CITY-NEAR Petroleum Service Corporation 3,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR JVIC 3,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brand Energy Solutions, LLC - Houston 2,015 FTE
NAT-TCR 055738-Pacifica Po 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 167980-Vandalia Po 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 364120-Kinston Po 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 351360-Central Islip Po 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2073-SW-20730146-MX 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE 051020-Buena Park Po 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2967-IL115 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Francis 106 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, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.