Denatured alcohol manufacturing · Minnesota

Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant

Welcome, MN · ~71 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant: 0.7 TCR = 22% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant safety composite

Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2017→2024

Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant injury rate improved

Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant's TCR fell 1.3 from 1.3 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.3 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Welcome, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/22
  • PHOTO Green Plains Hopewel…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Green Plains Hopewell LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant averages 0.7 TCR (22% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant TCR series: 2017=1.3 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 22 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in Minnesota.

Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant (71 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant
Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant (71 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Welcome Plant has more employees than the Denatured alcohol manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · MN · Welcome

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 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 Green Plains Hopewell LLC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Riga Plant 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Renewable Fuels Compan, LLC d/b/a Valero Mount Vernon Plant 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fulton Plant FEP 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fagen, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rochester Office 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donlar Construction Company 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanson Silo Company 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Welcome 15 FTE
NAT-TCR Ledesma and Meyer 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Baltimore 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Maplewood at Darien 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Nucor Harris Rebar Mid-Atlantic LLC (Baltimore Facility) 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Haase Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Umf South Dining Hall 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Centinela Hospital Medical Ctr 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE AgSource Services, LLC 71 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.