PVC pipe manufacturing · North Carolina

Southern Pipe, Inc

New London, NC · ~82 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Pipe, Inc runs at 258% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical PVC pipe manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Southern Pipe, Inc: 8.5 TCR = 258% of PVC pipe manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Pipe, Inc safety composite

Southern Pipe, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Southern Pipe, Inc: 1.7 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Southern Pipe, Inc's TCR rose 6.8 from 1.7 in 2018 to 8.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · New London, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 258% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO Sanderson Pipe Corpo…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanderson Pipe Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Pipe, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Pipe, Inc averages 8.5 TCR (258% of the PVC pipe manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Pipe, Inc TCR series: 2018=1.7 · 2021=14.4 · 2023=9.5 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Pipe, Inc falls in its industry

332 PVC pipe manufacturing establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 PVC pipe manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Southern Pipe, Inc (82 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 Southern Pipe, Inc
Southern Pipe, Inc (82 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Southern Pipe, Inc has more employees than the PVC pipe manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2024 8.5 8.5 7 0 0
2023 9.5 8.2 7 0 0
2021 14.4 9.6 10 2 0
2018 1.7 0.8 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · NC · New London

332 PVC pipe manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 9 employers in New London, NC · 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 Sanderson Pipe Corporation 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PETROFLEX NA LLC 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grace Composites 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SLP NC 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robert & Wade Glover Farms Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE SouthEnd Exteriors 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE CT Wilson Construction Company 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE JAMES L CAYTON ACCOCIATES INC 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fiberon Decking 1NL 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fiberon - 1NL Facility 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR H.W. Culp Lumber Company Inc 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR UFP - New London, LLC. 86 FTE
NAT-TCR Pioneer Cabinetry Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Southview Elementary 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Anna Maria of Aurora Inc 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Midnight Harvest 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harmony Castings, LLC 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE BENICIA 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rapid DSP, LLC 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arvada Care and Rehabilitation 82 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: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2018. 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.