Pipe fittings, rigid plastics, manufacturing · Ohio

CANTEX INC. Aurora

Aurora, OH · ~55 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CANTEX INC. Aurora runs at 244% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pipe fittings, rigid plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

CANTEX INC. Aurora: 8.0 TCR = 244% of Pipe fittings, rigid plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CANTEX INC. Aurora safety composite

CANTEX INC. Aurora scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

−3.4

2016→2022

CANTEX INC. Aurora injury rate improved

CANTEX INC. Aurora's TCR fell 3.4 from 11.3 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.3 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=8.8 · 2020=6.6 · 2022=7.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Aurora, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 244% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #17/20
  • PHOTO Stevensville, MT
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stevensville, MT (0.0 TCR gap)

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CANTEX INC. Aurora in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CANTEX INC. Aurora averages 8.0 TCR (244% of the Pipe fittings, rigid plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

CANTEX INC. Aurora TCR series: 2016=11.3 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=8.8 · 2020=6.6 · 2022=7.9 · BLS 3.3

Where CANTEX INC. Aurora falls in its industry

332 Pipe fittings, rigid plastics, establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 20 Pipe fittings, rigid plastics, employers in Ohio.

CANTEX INC. Aurora (55 employees, TCR 8.0) 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. Aurora
CANTEX INC. Aurora (55 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

CANTEX INC. Aurora has fewer employees than the Pipe fittings, rigid plastics, manufactu 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 7.9 7.9 5 0 0
2020 6.6 3.3 2 2 0
2019 8.8 0.0 4 1 0
2018 5.6 5.6 3 0 0
2016 11.3 9.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · OH · Aurora

332 Pipe fittings, rigid plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 64 employers in Aurora, OH · 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 Stevensville, MT 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brazil 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office-Roseville 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IPEX USA LLC 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE IGS Solar 6100 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dolan Lab 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Backbone Power Systems LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus NE Service Center 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora, OH - 05 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3250 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3250 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR PartsSource, Inc. 279 FTE
NAT-TCR 4765-PGDPW9667 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1185 Carol Stream 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Westdrift (Marriott) Manhattan Beach CA 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 262 Millennium Maingate Lakeside Resort 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wautoma 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE WG Moving & Storage, Inc. 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE RK-SB-ROCKLEDGE 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Colorado Mesa Univ-Maverick 55 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, 2016. 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.