Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing · Texas

CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty

Mineral Wells, TX · ~148 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty: 6.0 TCR = 181% of Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty safety composite

CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−2.5

2018→2022

CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty injury rate improved

CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty's TCR fell 2.5 from 9.1 in 2018 to 6.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.1 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=4.3 · 2022=6.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Mineral Wells, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 181% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #37/45
  • PHOTO Diamond Plastics Cor…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diamond Plastics Corporation Muncie (0.0 TCR gap)

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CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty averages 6.0 TCR (181% of the Fittings, 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. Mineral Wells Specialty TCR series: 2018=9.1 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=4.3 · 2022=6.6 · BLS 3.3

Where CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty falls in its industry

332 Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 45 Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, employers in Texas.

CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty (148 employees, TCR 6.0) 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. Mineral Wells Specialty
CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty (148 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

CANTEX INC. Mineral Wells Specialty has more employees than the Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, 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 6.6 4.4 7 2 0
2020 4.3 3.1 7 0 0
2019 3.9 2.8 6 1 0
2018 9.1 9.1 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · TX · Mineral Wells

332 Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 35 employers in Mineral Wells, TX · 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 Diamond Plastics Corporation Muncie 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JM Eagle 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arctic Insulation & Manufacturing, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CANTEX INC. Kingman 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cal- Maine Foods Red River 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE GNB Global Inc 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dallas Underground, LLC 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5 Star Civil Construction 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Filtration : Mineral Wells 423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Pinto General Hospital 397 FTE
CITY-NEAR PECOFacet - Mineral Wells 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 804 350 FTE
NAT-TCR 0420 - Oxnard Ca Whse 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0369 - Overland Park Ks Whse 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1121 - Sun Prairie Wi Whse 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Yreka Grocery Outlet 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hanken Cono Assad & Co., Inc. 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2348 Lebanon Folding 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Park Manor Health and Rehab 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Brands : 0Y21 148 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.