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2013 SUMMARY ANNUAL REPORT 2013 SUMMARY ANNUAL REPORT
While Valero’s goal is zero injuries, the company
recorded its lowest-ever combined employee and
contractor injury rate in 2013 – 0.48 incidents per
100 workers, for the full year, compared with the
industry average for refinery employees of about 0.9.
At the end of 2013, Valero’s Pembroke refinery
in Wales had gone nearly two years without a
significant process safety event, and achieved
more than 1 million work hours without an
employee lost-time injury, and 3.5 million work
hours without a contractor lost-time injury.
Valero’s East and West refineries at Corpus
Christi, Texas, surpassed 10 million hours without
an employee lost-time incident, and passed 3
million hours without an employee recordable
injury. Refineries at Benicia, Calif.; Houston; and
Ardmore, Okla., all passed 1 million safe work
hours. Houston won the Distinguished Safety
Award from American Fuel & Petrochemical
Manufacturers in 2011.
Valero goes beyond basic regulatory compliance
by voluntarily submitting to rigorous safety audits
by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health
Administration and state agencies, under Voluntary
Protection Programs (VPP). Facilities that meet or
exceed the high audit standards are designated as
Star Sites, the agencies’ top safety recognition.
Through 2013, Valero had eight VPP Star Sites in
its refining system, representing about a quarter of
such sites across the industry nationally. Valero’s
Corpus Christi and Houston asphalt terminals
additionally have received Star designations.
In environmental performance, at the close
of 2013, Valero had decreased its number of
environmental “scorecard” events by more than
54 percent since 2008, referring to incidents such
as unplanned releases and spills. The Ardmore
refinery, for example, had gone more than two
years without a flaring incident.
Outstanding performance is not restricted to
petroleum refineries. The Valero Renewables
ethanol plant at Welcome, Minn., surpassed
three years without a recordable injury, posted no
environmental or reliability scorecard events in
2013, and set a record for highest annual income
of any Renewables plant.
MECHANICAL
AVAILABILITY
IN 2013,
JEAN GAULIN
REFINERY
100%
RELIABILITY AND
ENVIRONMENTAL
SCORECARD
EVENTS,
INJURIES IN 2013,
VALERO
RENEWABLES-
WELCOME
ZERO