PVC pipe manufacturing · North Carolina

Ipex USA LLC

Pineville, NC · ~159 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ipex USA LLC runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical PVC pipe manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ipex USA LLC: 3.1 TCR = 93% of PVC pipe manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ipex USA LLC safety composite

Ipex USA LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−5.2

2016→2024

Ipex USA LLC injury rate improved

Ipex USA LLC's TCR fell 5.2 from 6.4 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.4 · 2017=4.8 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Pineville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #8/14
  • PHOTO Diamond Plastics Cor…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

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

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Ipex USA LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ipex USA LLC averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the PVC pipe manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ipex USA LLC TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2017=4.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Ipex USA LLC falls in its industry

332 PVC pipe manufacturing establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 14 PVC pipe manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Ipex USA LLC (159 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Ipex USA LLC
Ipex USA LLC (159 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Ipex USA LLC has more employees than the PVC pipe manufacturing median and a lower 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 1.1 0.8 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.8 2.4 8 0 0
2016 6.4 2.6 7 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · NC · Pineville

332 PVC pipe manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 77 employers in Pineville, NC · 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 Lubbock 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Miami 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Plastics Corp - GI 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR IPG - Colfax 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE NHM Constructors, Inc. 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitt Electric ORI, LLC 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lovelady Plant 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mount Airy Pouring Plant 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0007-Atrium Health Pineville 1,725 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0007-CHS Pineville 1,725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CLT6 393 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 626 EAGLETON DOWN ROAD 243 FTE
NAT-TCR FLEXcon Industrial, LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Crist Bros. Orchards, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Enjet Aero Manchester 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MORryde - Grant 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lornamead 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ilblo - Bloomington 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wiair - Mke Air Gateway 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waltham_newton St-Ma49 159 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, 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.