Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing · Florida

CANTEX INC. Auburndale

Auburndale, FL · ~122 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CANTEX INC. Auburndale runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

CANTEX INC. Auburndale: 4.8 TCR = 145% of Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CANTEX INC. Auburndale safety composite

CANTEX INC. Auburndale scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−2.6

2018→2022

CANTEX INC. Auburndale injury rate improved

CANTEX INC. Auburndale's TCR fell 2.6 from 5.3 in 2018 to 2.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.3 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=5.6 · 2022=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Auburndale, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #9/13
  • PHOTO Blue Diamond Industr…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blue Diamond Industries Clinton (0.0 TCR gap)

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CANTEX INC. Auburndale in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CANTEX INC. Auburndale averages 4.8 TCR (145% of the Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

CANTEX INC. Auburndale TCR series: 2018=5.3 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=5.6 · 2022=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where CANTEX INC. Auburndale falls in its industry

332 Fittings and unions, rigid pla establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 13 Fittings and unions, rigid pla employers in Florida.

CANTEX INC. Auburndale (122 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate CANTEX INC. Auburndale
CANTEX INC. Auburndale (122 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

CANTEX INC. Auburndale has more employees than the Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 2.7 2.7 3 0 0
2020 5.6 5.6 6 0 0
2019 5.5 1.9 3 3 0
2018 5.3 5.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · FL · Auburndale

332 Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 63 employers in Auburndale, FL · 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 Blue Diamond Industries Clinton 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADS Logan Twp. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washougal 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR US7125: Milford 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MCE Miami - Central Service Center 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Pensacola 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Construction - Office 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cutler Bay Rapid Response Team 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TPA3 1,454 FTE
CITY-NEAR PRT Auburndale 792 FTE
CITY-NEAR FL_Auburndale_1004 US Highway 92W_00610106 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR CCNA - Main Street Plant 622 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Washington Community - Fac 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Umass Albert Sherman Center 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 02010-02-02-NEWARK 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pt Burgess Mc 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at W&M Sadler Building 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Student 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper Mount Vernon Container 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE USM Store #536 122 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.