Bolts, nuts, and rivets, plastics, manufacturing · Texas

Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies

Houston, TX · ~106 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bolts, nuts, and rivets, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Bolts, nuts, and rivets, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies safety composite

Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2017

Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #16/161
  • PHOTO Beecher, IL - 37
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beecher, IL - 37 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Bolts, nuts, and rivets, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies falls in its industry

2,838 Bolts, nuts, and rivets, plast establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 161 Bolts, nuts, and rivets, plast employers in Texas.

Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies (106 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies
Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies (106 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Essentra Pipe Protection Technologies has more employees than the Bolts, nuts, and rivets, plastics, manuf median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2017 2.1 1.4 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · TX · Houston

2,838 Bolts, nuts, and rivets, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 Beecher, IL - 37 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schaefer Plastics North America 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenfield Precision Plastics 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMS Gear Holding, Inc 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dallas (TGM) 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Ft Bend 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Katy Electric Service Center 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE BMWC Constructors Gulf Coast, Inc. 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR AmeriGas - ACE - Pahrump, NV 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR G5 - Gateway 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Monitor Manufacturing - Augusta 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Salt-Tampa 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ADS Muncy 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rimrock Villa 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S Cromwell, Ct 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piper Plastics, Chandler 106 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.