Couplings, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe · Texas

Polk Plant

Houston, TX · ~131 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Polk Plant runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Couplings, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe workplace, earning a grade C.

Polk Plant: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Couplings, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Polk Plant safety composite

Polk Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Polk Plant: 1.4 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2023

Polk Plant's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.4 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #55/73
  • PHOTO TF-R, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TF-R, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Polk Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Polk Plant averages 3.8 TCR (115% 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

Polk Plant TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Polk Plant falls in its industry

337 Couplings, pipe, made from pur establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #55 safest of 73 Couplings, pipe, made from pur employers in Texas.

Polk Plant (131 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Polk Plant
Polk Plant (131 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Polk Plant 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
2023 2.1 0.7 3 0 0
2022 8.4 7.0 12 0 0
2021 8.1 6.1 7 1 0
2020 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2019 2.6 1.9 4 0 0
2018 2.4 2.4 4 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 2 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 TF-R, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ETI Elkhart / Tri-Went Industrial 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nelson Global Products, Inc 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bath 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bogata 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sisu Energy LLC 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE K. Hovnanian of Houston II, L.L.C. 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Renu, Inc. 131 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 Store 0322 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadus Wood Elementary School 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tustin Mechanical Services (Norristown) 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR M2 Steele Creek Tenant LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unit #0651 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100559 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Super Stop & Shop 2815 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (74) 131 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.