Couplings, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe · Texas

Pinnacle Machine - 15201 Sheldon

Houston, TX · ~91 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pinnacle Machine - 15201 Sheldon runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Couplings, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe workplace, earning a grade F.

Pinnacle Machine - 15201 Sheldon: 7.5 TCR = 229% of Couplings, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pinnacle Machine - 15201 Sheldon safety composite

Pinnacle Machine - 15201 Sheldon scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Pinnacle Machine - 15201 Sheldon held a steady TCR band

Pinnacle Machine - 15201 Sheldon's TCR held near 0.3 from 7.7 in 2016 to 7.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.7 · 2017=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 229% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #67/73
  • PHOTO Appian Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Appian Manufacturing Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pinnacle Machine - 15201 Sheldon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pinnacle Machine - 15201 Sheldon averages 7.5 TCR (229% 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 - 15201 Sheldon TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Pinnacle Machine - 15201 Sheldon falls in its industry

337 Couplings, pipe, made from pur establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #67 safest of 73 Couplings, pipe, made from pur employers in Texas.

Pinnacle Machine - 15201 Sheldon (91 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 - 15201 Sheldon
Pinnacle Machine - 15201 Sheldon (91 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Pinnacle Machine - 15201 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
2017 7.4 6.8 11 1 0
2016 7.7 6.4 6 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 Appian Manufacturing Corp 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Tube Inc 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Piping Systems, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tube Forgings of America, Inc. 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Texas Oilfield Solutions, LLC 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quadvest LP 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - North Central Texas 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leyendecker Builders & Contractors, Inc. 91 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 Homewood Suites by Hilton Stratford 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sacramento Hub (Casac) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Olympic Training Center Co 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5241 Blue Springs, M 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Legends - Veterans at Virginia Beach 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE GS500 - GSU - Sacramento 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Services : Erlanger, KY, USA 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jefferson City (Mojef) 91 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.