Refinery gases made in petroleum refineries · Louisiana

Valero St. Charles Refinery

Name: Valero St. Charles Refinery Workplace Safety Data
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Norco, LA · ~543 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

Valero St. Charles Refinery runs at 8% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Refinery gases made in petroleum refineries workplace, earning a grade A.

Valero St. Charles Refinery: 0.3 TCR = 8% of Refinery gases made in petroleum refineries BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valero St. Charles Refinery safety composite

Valero St. Charles 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Valero St. Charles Refinery held a steady TCR band

Valero St. Charles Refinery's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324110 · Norco, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 8% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #14/25
PHOTO Delek-Krotz Springs …
BOOK 4y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~543 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Delek-Krotz Springs Refinery (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.3
Delek-Krotz Sp

0.3
Phillips 66 Lo

0.3
Valero McKee

0.3
HollyFrontier

0.3

What this shows Valero St. Charles Refinery averages 0.3 TCR (8% of the Refinery gases made in petroleum refineries BLS benchmark).

Valero St. Charles Refinery TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Valero St. Charles Refinery falls in its industry

198 Refinery gases made in petrole establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 25 Refinery gases made in petrole employers in Louisiana.

Valero St. Charles Refinery (543 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Valero St. Charles Refinery has more employees than the Refinery gases made in petroleum refiner 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
2024	0.0	0.0	0
2023	0.7	0.7	4
2022	0.3	0.2	2
2021	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · LA · Norco

198 Refinery gases made in petroleum refineries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 36 employers in Norco, LA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Delek-Krotz Springs Refinery	KROTZ SPRINGS, LA	0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Phillips 66 Los Angeles	WILMINGTON, CA	0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Valero McKee	SUNRAY, TX	0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	HollyFrontier Tulsa Refining LLC	TULSA, OK	0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Turner at Pipe Fabrication Baton Rouge LA	PORT ALLEN	545 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Frank's International, LLC - Lafayette	LAFAYETTE	548 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DERIDDER, LA	DERIDDER	548 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ville Platte Medical Center LLC	VILLE PLATTE	538 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Equilon Enterprises LLC dba Shell Oil Products US - Norco Refinery	Norco	1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Motiva Norco Refinery	Norco	864 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Equilon Enterprises LLC dba Shell Oil Product US - Norco Refinery	Norco	851 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Charles Refinery, Valero Refining - New Orleans, LLC	Norco	550 FTE
NAT-TCR	Honeywell Process Solution Field Operations USA	Houston, TX	0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Palmetto Services, LLC	Henderson, TX	0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company	Ridgeland, MS	0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Skidmore Sales & Distributing	West Chester, OH	0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Everglades Equipment Co.	Wellington, FL	543 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Stew Leonard's - Norwalk	Norwalk, CT	543 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Gerber Products Co	Fort Smith, AR	543 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wegmans Cherry Hill 010	Cherry Hill, NJ	543 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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