Industry profile · NAICS 325110

Olefins made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons

Workplace injury rates across 86 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

86
Employers
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
BLS benchmark
347
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Olefins made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons average 0.6 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.

0.6
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.3
BLS national benchmark
86
employers reporting
347
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Olefins made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons Safety Data Reveals

The Olefins made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons sector (NAICS 325110) encompasses 86 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 347 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 0.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.3 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 0.6 is below the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Olefins made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Shell Chemical - Norco NORCO, LA A 0.2
LyondellBasell La Porte Complex LA PORTE, TX A 0.2
The Dow Chemical Company - Louisiana Operations PLAQUEMINE, LA A 0.2
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co - Cedar Bayou Plant BAYTOWN, TX A 0.2
Equistar Chemicals, LP CHANNELVIEW, TX A 0.1
Dow Texas Operations FREEPORT, TX A 0.1
ExxonMobil Chemical BEAUMONT, TX A 0.1
Lyondell Chemical Company CHANNELVIEW, TX A 0.1
Lousiana Integrated Polyethylene JV, LLC WESTLAKE, LA A 0.1
ExxonMobil Baytown Olefins Plant BAYTOWN, TX A 0.1
LACC, LLC WESTLAKE, LA A 0.1
Shell Polymers Monaca BEAVER, PA A 0.1
NOVA Chemicals - Geismar Plant GEISMAR, LA A 0.1
ExxonMobil Baytown Chemical Plant BAYTOWN, TX A 0.1
Freeport, Texas FREEPORT, TX A 0.1
ExxonMobil Chemical Plant BEAUMONT, TX A 0.0
Ineos US Chemicals Company TEXAS CITY, TX C 0.0
Oligomers Chocolate Bayou ALVIN, TX C 0.0
TotalEnergies Petrochemicals and Refining USA Inc-Carville SM CARVILLE, LA C 0.0
Next Wave Energy Partners - Pasadena Performance Products (Pasadena TX location) HOUSTON, TX C 0.0
INEOS Olefins & Polymers Marina View Site LEAGUE CITY, TX C 0.0
Invista Houston Propylene HOUSTON, TX C 0.0
INEOS US Chemicals Company, Cooper River Plant WANDO, SC C 0.0
Lyondellbasell Corpus Christi Operations CORPUS CHRISTI, TX C 0.0
Celanese Bay City BAY CITY, TX C 0.0
7840 - 2-PROJECT TRAVELERS PASADENA, TX C 0.0
The Dow Chemical Company - Grand Bayou Operations BELLE ROSE, LA C 0.0
Corpus Christi Site (CCO) CORPUS CHRISTI, TX C 0.0
INEOS O&P USA Marina View LEAGUE CITY, TX C 0.0
Corporate Office (HCO) HOUSTON, TX C 0.0
Chevron Phillips Port Arthur PORT ARTHUR, TX C 0.0
Grand Bayou Operations BELLE ROSE, LA C 0.0
SI GROUP BAYTOWN SITE BAYTOWN, TX C 0.0
Marina View Site LEAGUE CITY, TX C 0.0
Houston Engineering Center HOUSTON, TX C 0.0
Tembec BTLSR TOLEDO, OH C 0.0
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This sector averages 0.6 against a BLS benchmark of 3.3 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.