PVC pipe manufacturing · Kansas

Westlake Pipe & Fittings

Mcpherson, KS · ~114 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Westlake Pipe & Fittings runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical PVC pipe manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Westlake Pipe & Fittings: 2.1 TCR = 65% of PVC pipe manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Westlake Pipe & Fittings safety composite

Westlake Pipe & Fittings scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Westlake Pipe & Fittings: 2.1 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2024

Westlake Pipe & Fittings's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.1 in 2022 to 2.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Mcpherson, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Dura-Line LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dura-Line LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Westlake Pipe & Fittings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Westlake Pipe & Fittings averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the PVC pipe manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Westlake Pipe & Fittings TCR series: 2022=2.1 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Westlake Pipe & Fittings falls in its industry

332 PVC pipe manufacturing establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 PVC pipe manufacturing employers in Kansas.

Westlake Pipe & Fittings (114 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Westlake Pipe & Fittings
Westlake Pipe & Fittings (114 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Westlake Pipe & Fittings has more employees than the PVC pipe manufacturing median and a lower 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 2.8 2.8 4 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · KS · Mcpherson

332 PVC pipe manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 53 employers in Mcpherson, KS · 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 Dura-Line LLC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charlotte Pipe & Foundry Plastics 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liner Products 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advance Drainage Systems- Madera 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Johnson County Service Center 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Logistics 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skyline Homes #12 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR McPherson Refinery 525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viega LLC - Kansas 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR McPherson Hospital, Inc 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR McPherson 305 FTE
NAT-TCR Hollingsworth Paving Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kci Birmingham 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbian Distribution Services, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lowes Foods #261 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCA 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Borderview Rehabilitation & Living Center 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Russell Park Rehabilitation & Living Center 114 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, 2022. 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.