Furnace filters manufacturing · Texas

PPA Industries, Inc

Pasadena, TX · ~213 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PPA Industries, Inc runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furnace filters manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

PPA Industries, Inc: 6.7 TCR = 203% of Furnace filters manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PPA Industries, Inc safety composite

PPA Industries, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−4.3

2016→2021

PPA Industries, Inc injury rate improved

PPA Industries, Inc's TCR fell 4.3 from 6.8 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.8 · 2017=11.6 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333413 · Pasadena, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 203% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #23/26
  • PHOTO Americraft Manufactu…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~213 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Americraft Manufacturing Co., Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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PPA Industries, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PPA Industries, Inc averages 6.7 TCR (203% of the Furnace filters manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PPA Industries, Inc TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=11.6 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where PPA Industries, Inc falls in its industry

232 Furnace filters manufacturing establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 26 Furnace filters manufacturing employers in Texas.

PPA Industries, Inc (213 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 PPA Industries, Inc
PPA Industries, Inc (213 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1

PPA Industries, Inc has more employees than the Furnace filters manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 2.5 1.2 6 0 0
2020 1.4 0.9 3 0 0
2019 8.7 8.2 18 0 0
2018 9.3 4.4 19 0 0
2017 11.6 6.1 16 1 0
2016 6.8 4.1 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333413 · TX · Pasadena

232 Furnace filters manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 385 employers in Pasadena, 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 Americraft Manufacturing Co., Inc 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poynette Plant 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Air Systems, Limited 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Excelsior Blower Systems, Inc. 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greenspoint Service Center CP22 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fiber Glass Systems 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE GTI 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAPCO Precast LLC 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSC Group 4,297 FTE
CITY-NEAR Petroleum Service Corporation 3,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR JVIC 3,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brand Energy Solutions, LLC - Houston 2,015 FTE
NAT-TCR Layman Brothers Contracting #854 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Palms, The 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR NMC - Fridley 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Industries Big Bend,Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Town of South Windsor - Wapping 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pepro Enterprises Inc 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fruita Area Office 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spancrete Valders 213 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, 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.