Industry profile · NAICS 324110

Petroleum refineries

Workplace injury rates across 219 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

219
Employers
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
BLS benchmark
2,194
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Petroleum refineries average 1.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.

1.4
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.3
BLS national benchmark
219
employers reporting
2,194
recordable injuries

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

What Petroleum refineries Safety Data Reveals

The Petroleum refineries sector (NAICS 324110) encompasses 219 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 2,194 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 1.4 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 1.4 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 Petroleum refineries 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
Northern Paving Indirect Fort Collins, CO A 0.5
Motiva Enterprises LLC Port Arthur, TX A 0.5
Valero Refining Co - Tennessee Memphis, TN A 0.5
Saint Paul Park Refinery St Paul Park, MN A 0.5
Alliance Refinery Belle Chasse, LA A 0.5
Kenai Refinery Kenai, AK A 0.5
Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company Sinclair, WY A 0.5
Ergon West Virginia, Inc. Newell, WY A 0.5
Los Angeles Refinery Wilmington Wilmington, CA A 0.5
Valero Wilmington Refinery Wilmington, CA A 0.5
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. North Salt Lake, UT A 0.5
The Premcor Refining Group INC Port Arthur, TX A 0.4
Galveston Bay Refinery Texas City, TX A 0.4
Detroit Refinery Detroit, MI A 0.4
El Paso Refinery El Paso, TX A 0.4
Phillips 66 Wood River Refinery Roxana, IL A 0.4
Big Spring Refinery Big Spring, TX A 0.4
Motiva Norco Refinery Norco, LA A 0.4
Shell Chemicals Norco Norco, LA A 0.4
HollyFrontier Navajo Refining LLC Artesia, NM A 0.4
Valero Three Rivers Refinery Three Rivers, TX A 0.4
Valero Refining Company - Texas City Texas City, TX A 0.4
Port Arthur Refinery Port Arthur, TX A 0.4
Placid Refining Company LLC Port Allen, LA A 0.3
ExxonMobil Oil Corp., Joliet Refinery Channahon, IL A 0.3
Flint Hills Resources - West Plant Corpus Christi, TX A 0.3
HF Sinclair Sinclair, WY A 0.3
Corpus Christi Refinery (West) Corpus Christi, TX A 0.3
Shell Oil Products US - Puget Sound Refinery Anacortes, WA A 0.3
Salt Lake City Refinery Salt Lake City, UT A 0.3
Monroe Energy Trainer Refinery Trainer, PA A 0.3
Torrance Refining Company LLC Torrance, CA A 0.3
Valero Wilmington Asphalt Plant Wilmington, CA A 0.3
BTX Processing Corpus Christi, TX A 0.3
Catlettsburg Refinery Catlettsburg, KY A 0.3
Krotz Springs Refinery Krotz Springs, LA A 0.3
Robinson Refinery Robinson, IL A 0.3
Wynnewood Refining Wynnewood, OK A 0.3
Gallup Refinery Jamestown, NM A 0.3
CITGO Refining and Chemicals Co. L.P. Corpus Christi, TX A 0.3
Chevron Salt Lake Refinery North Salt Lake, UT A 0.3
Los Angeles Refinery Carson Carson, CA A 0.3
Midland Basin North Midland, TX A 0.3
Valero Refining Tennessee Memphis, TN A 0.3
Bayway Refinery Linden, NJ A 0.3
Anacortes Refinery Anacortes, WA A 0.3
Valero McKee Sunray, TX A 0.3
HollyFrontier Tulsa Refining LLC Tulsa, OK A 0.3
Delek-Krotz Springs Refinery Krotz Springs, LA A 0.3
Valero St. Charles Refinery Norco, LA A 0.3
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This sector averages 1.4 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.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.