Cast iron pipe and pipe fittings manufacturing · Arkansas

NIBCO Blytheville

Blytheville, AR · ~233 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality

The verdict

NIBCO Blytheville runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cast iron pipe and pipe fittings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
1
worker fatalities on record

Grade compares NIBCO Blytheville's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 8 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

NIBCO Blytheville's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

234567 20162017201820192020202120222023 5.23.3 Industry benchmarkNIBCO Blytheville TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 331511.

Where NIBCO Blytheville falls in its industry

281 Cast iron pipe and pipe fittin establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

NIBCO Blytheville has an average TCR of 4.1, which is 125% of the industry average (3.3) for Cast iron pipe and pipe fittings manufacturing. This is worse than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for NIBCO Blytheville

Between 2016 and 2023, NIBCO Blytheville's Total Case Rate worsened from 4.5 to 5.2 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 15% increase across 7 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2019, at a TCR of 2.3, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 6.0, a spread of 3.8 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 8 reporting years, NIBCO Blytheville recorded 69 total injuries and illnesses and 1 fatality. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 8-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from NIBCO Blytheville's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 331511 - Cast iron pipe and pipe fittings manufacturing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

5 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 459,196 hours worked = 2.18 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
NIBCO Blytheville (this establishment) 4.12 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 8-year avg
Gray iron foundries industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 331511
Arkansas state avg (all industries) 3.83 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by NIBCO Blytheville to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 5.2 2.2 12 0 1
2022 5.3 2.2 12 0 0
2021 2.9 1.9 6 0 0
2020 3.0 1.0 6 0 0
2019 2.3 1.4 5 0 0
2018 3.6 0.5 7 1 0
2017 6.0 1.7 12 2 0
2016 4.5 1.8 9 1 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on NIBCO Blytheville's reported OSHA injury record versus its Cast iron pipe and pipe fittings manufacturing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 125% of the Cast iron pipe and pipe fittings manufacturing benchmark, NIBCO Blytheville reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Cast iron pipe and pipe fittings manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is NIBCO Blytheville's safety grade?
NIBCO Blytheville has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.1 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Cast iron pipe and pipe fittings manufacturing.
How many injuries has NIBCO Blytheville reported?
NIBCO Blytheville has reported 69 total injuries and 1 fatalities across 8 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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