Couplings, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe · Texas

Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon

Houston, TX · ~92 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Couplings, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe workplace, earning a grade D.

Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon: 4.4 TCR = 134% of Couplings, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon safety composite

Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.8

2018→2021

Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon injury rate improved

Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon's TCR fell 3.8 from 6.4 in 2018 to 2.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.4 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332996 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 134% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #57/73
  • PHOTO Hydro Tube Enterpris…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hydro Tube Enterprises, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon averages 4.4 TCR (134% of the Couplings, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe BLS benchmark).

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

Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon TCR series: 2018=6.4 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon falls in its industry

337 Couplings, pipe, made from pur establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 73 Couplings, pipe, made from pur employers in Texas.

Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon (92 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon
Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon (92 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Pinnacle Machine - 10521 Sheldon has more employees than the Couplings, pipe, made from purchased met 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
2021 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2020 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2019 6.4 6.4 8 0 0
2018 6.4 5.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332996 · TX · Houston

337 Couplings, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe 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 Hydro Tube Enterprises, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BendTec,LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tenaris Oklahoma Service Center 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vanderbilt North 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pecos 341 CR 402, Pecos, TX 79772 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden Spread Center 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ft Worth Transmission 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Maintenance 92 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 Mon Health Care, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Numerical Control Support Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Obrien Sixty dba Holiday Inn Express & Suites 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerdau Cartersville Mill 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Geer Woods, Inc 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maintenance and Operations Facility 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fiocchi-Ozark Plant 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bowling Green 92 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.