Natural gas pipeline construction · West Virginia

Apex Pipeline Services, Inc.

Nitro, WV · ~298 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Natural gas pipeline construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Apex Pipeline Services, Inc.: 0.5 TCR = 18% of Natural gas pipeline construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. safety composite

Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2020→2024

Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. injury rate improved

Apex Pipeline Services, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.6 from 0.6 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 0.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.6 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237120 · Nitro, WV AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/14
  • PHOTO Performance Contract…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~298 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Performance Contractors, Inc. - Chevron-Pasadena (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. averages 0.5 TCR (18% of the Natural gas pipeline construction BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. TCR series: 2020=0.6 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. falls in its industry

809 Natural gas pipeline construct establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 14 Natural gas pipeline construct employers in West Virginia.

Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. (298 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 01,0002,0003,0004,000 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate Apex Pipeline Services, Inc.
Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. (298 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7

Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. has more employees than the Natural gas pipeline construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 0.5 0.3 2 0 0
2021 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.6 0.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237120 · WV · Nitro

809 Natural gas pipeline construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 31 employers in Nitro, WV · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Performance Contractors, Inc. - Chevron-Pasadena 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southeast Texas Industrial Services, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bennett Construction Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Price Gregory INTL INC 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1450 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1499 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2684 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2576-07405118-5118 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston 1,686 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nitro Construction Services 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nitro Electric 001 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHARLESTOWN WV NITRO 106 FTE
NAT-TCR Perna Finnigan, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PA Employees Benefit Trust Fund 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Impact Fire - Dallas 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR North State Environmental 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lumin8 Transportation Technologies, LLC. 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE OHI 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flex Technology Group 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE NFI Management Services LLC-2 COOPER ST 298 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.