Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of building ships) · Texas

CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators

Brownsville, TX · ~287 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of building ships) workplace, earning a grade B.

CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of building ships) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators safety composite

CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−3.0

2019→2023

CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators injury rate improved

CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators's TCR fell 3.0 from 4.3 in 2019 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.3 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336611 · Brownsville, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #18/27
  • PHOTO Marine Industrial Fa…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~287 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marine Industrial Fabrication (0.0 TCR gap)

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CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of building ships) BLS benchmark).

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

CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators TCR series: 2019=4.3 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators falls in its industry

454 Shipyard (i.e., facility capab establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 27 Shipyard (i.e., facility capab employers in Texas.

CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators (287 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators
CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators (287 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2

CPEP Inc.dba Port Fabricators has more employees than the Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of buil median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2023 1.3 1.0 5 0 0
2022 1.6 1.3 6 0 0
2019 4.3 3.3 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336611 · TX · Brownsville

454 Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of building ships) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 155 employers in Brownsville, 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 Marine Industrial Fabrication 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gulf Copper Dry Dock & Rig Repair 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vigor Alaska 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Industries, Inc - South Carolina 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Satterfield and Pontikes Construction 287 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at Marathon Petroleum Company Texas City TX 287 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Angelo's Gourmet foods 287 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP GRANDVIEW , LLC 287 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brownsville, TX 2,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-769 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Valley Regional Medical Center 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Regional Medical Center 759 FTE
NAT-TCR Bellevue 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dauphin Electric Supply (Pc2889) 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Suttles Plumbing & Mechanical Corp. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Market Basket #52 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE S&R Compression 287 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menasha Packaging Company- Grumbacher 287 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Corrections (34) 287 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schwan Cosmetics USA 287 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: 2023, 2022, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.