Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel · Texas

Southern Tube, LLC

Houston, TX · ~81 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Tube, LLC runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade B.

Southern Tube, LLC: 2.6 TCR = 78% of Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Tube, LLC safety composite

Southern Tube, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2016→2019

Southern Tube, LLC injury rate improved

Southern Tube, LLC's TCR fell 2.7 from 3.5 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331210 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 78% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #21/46
  • PHOTO Tenaris Coiled Tubes…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tenaris Coiled Tubes - Downhole Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Tube, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Tube, LLC averages 2.6 TCR (78% of the Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Tube, LLC TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Tube, LLC falls in its industry

329 Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, loc establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 46 Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, loc employers in Texas.

Southern Tube, LLC (81 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Tube, LLC
Southern Tube, LLC (81 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Southern Tube, LLC has fewer employees than the Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, s median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2019 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2018 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2016 3.5 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331210 · TX · Houston

329 Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel 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 Tenaris Coiled Tubes - Downhole Center 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MaiCo Industries, Inc 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Conduit Inc. - Cedar Springs 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phillips Tube Group, Inc.- Richmond 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kraken Oil & Gas 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Total Frac Solutions 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARLINGTON SERVICE CENTER 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Karnes Electric Cooperative, Inc. 81 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 Ancra Group : Kinedyne-Alabama 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Waukesha Engineering 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Afton 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cadence Health 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE NC 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE MN,CANBY - Campus - Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Division #801 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Trouble-Metro 81 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: 2019, 2018, 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.