Crude petroleum refineries · Texas

Valero McKee

Sunray, TX · ~435 workers · 8 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

Valero McKee runs at 8% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Crude petroleum refineries workplace, earning a grade A.

Valero McKee: 0.3 TCR = 8% of Crude petroleum refineries BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valero McKee safety composite

Valero McKee scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2016→2024

Valero McKee injury rate improved

Valero McKee's TCR fell 0.4 from 0.8 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.8 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=0.2 · 2021=0.2 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324110 · Sunray, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 8% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #15/41
  • PHOTO HollyFrontier Tulsa …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~435 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HollyFrontier Tulsa Refining LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valero McKee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valero McKee averages 0.3 TCR (8% of the Crude petroleum refineries BLS benchmark).

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

Valero McKee TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=0.2 · 2021=0.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Valero McKee falls in its industry

198 Crude petroleum refineries establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 41 Crude petroleum refineries employers in Texas.

Valero McKee (435 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 Valero McKee
Valero McKee (435 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Valero McKee has more employees than the Crude 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
2024 0.4 0.4 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2019 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2018 0.4 0.2 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.8 0.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · TX · Sunray

198 Crude petroleum refineries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Sunray, 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 HollyFrontier Tulsa Refining LLC 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bayway Refinery 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anacortes Refinery 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delek-Krotz Springs Refinery 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE C1675 - ETP - Frac VII 435 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tower Extrusions, LLC. 435 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cox Automotive - Manheim Dallas 435 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 140 435 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Carbon Company- Sunray Plant 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Carbon Company Sunray 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crownover Farms dba Lone Star Family Farms 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunray Plant 74 FTE
NAT-TCR HVAFF06 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Lakes Tower & Antenna Co., Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR International Paper Retail Packaging and Display - Thorofare 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hardinsburg Location 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sauer Group, LLC 435 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Service Building 435 FTE
NAT-SIZE Interface Flor LLC Rca 435 FTE
NAT-SIZE Division 9 435 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 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.