PVC pipe manufacturing · Texas

CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility

Mineral Wells, TX · ~162 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical PVC pipe manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility: 6.4 TCR = 193% of PVC pipe manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility safety composite

CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility: 5.8 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility's TCR rose 1.2 from 5.8 in 2023 to 7.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 193% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #38/45
  • PHOTO Haviland Drainage Pr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Haviland Drainage Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility averages 6.4 TCR (193% of the PVC pipe manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility TCR series: 2023=5.8 · 2024=7 · BLS 3.3

Where CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility falls in its industry

332 PVC pipe manufacturing establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #38 safest of 45 PVC pipe manufacturing employers in Texas.

CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility (162 employees, TCR 6.4) 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.-Specialty Facility
CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility (162 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

CANTEX INC.-Specialty Facility has more employees than the PVC pipe manufacturing 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
2024 7.0 5.8 9 3 0
2023 5.8 2.9 5 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · TX · Mineral Wells

332 PVC 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 Haviland Drainage Products 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Poly Systems 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perry 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prinsco, Inc. - Prinsburg 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE BCEI Houston Office 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE HMT LLC - Baytown 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electra Link, Inc. Spring 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE D&L Electric Company, Inc. 162 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 CP Industries Holdings, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR San Joaquin County Department of Behavioral Health Services 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Palew - Lewistown 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Loews Royal Pacific Resort 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stebbins Engineering and Manufacturing Co. 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexington Clinic Corporate Office 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Krystal Biotech, Inc. 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palo Verde Plastering, Inc 162 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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