Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe · Nebraska

Hipco

Hastings, NE · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hipco runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe workplace, earning a grade F.

Hipco: 6.7 TCR = 202% of Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hipco safety composite

Hipco scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Hipco: 5.4 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2017

Hipco's TCR rose 2.4 from 5.4 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332996 · Hastings, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK P19
  • PHOTO Tennessee Tube Bending
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tennessee Tube Bending (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hipco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hipco averages 6.7 TCR (202% of the Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe BLS benchmark).

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

Hipco TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=7.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Hipco falls in its industry

337 Fabricated pipe and pipe fitti establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hipco (71 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hipco
Hipco (71 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Hipco has more employees than the Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made f median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 7.9 2.6 6 0 0
2016 5.4 1.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332996 · NE · Hastings

337 Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 65 employers in Hastings, NE · 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 Tennessee Tube Bending 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bergen - Donora 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Munn manufacturing Company 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Fabricators & Repairs Inc. 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hampton 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Omaha Electric Service, INC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Omaha / Lincoln, NE HVAC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wahoo #740 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital 1,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Transport Solutions Americas : MFG-Hastings, NE-USA 472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Transport Solutions NA and EMEA : MFG-Hastings, NE-USA 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR WR Reserve 381 FTE
NAT-TCR C.L. Smith Industrial Company 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 120 Rider Avenue PCH Operating Company, LP 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlantic Spring 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bristol (Vabri) 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garden City Container 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Hampshire Location #09 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips Lighting Mountain Top RDC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kincaid Ready Mix 71 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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