42 2021 Safety Highlights FOUR manufacturing facilities received Elite Gold or Elite Silver Awards for safety excellence from American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), the industry’s major trade association: • One Elite Gold Award to St. Charles refinery for performance in the top five percentile of industry safety, demonstrating superior and consistent safety performance, innovation and leadership. • Three Elite Silver Awards to Wilmington Asphalt Plant and Texas City and Three Rivers refineries for performance in the top 10 percentile of industry safety. ONE refinery - Three Rivers - received the Innovation Award from AFPM, given to sites that implemented unique and innovative programs to effectively improve occupational or process safety performance. The refinery implemented an energy isolation lock-out device for testing alkylation unit fire monitors and vapor suppression systems. 2021 was a record year for safety performance. Since its introduction in 2020, Valero has received FOUR out of 12 AFPM Innovation Awards.