Telecommunications carriers, wired · Illinois

Adams Telephone Co-Operative

Golden, IL · ~77 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Adams Telephone Co-Operative runs at 257% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Adams Telephone Co-Operative: 1.8 TCR = 257% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Adams Telephone Co-Operative safety composite

Adams Telephone Co-Operative scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Adams Telephone Co-Operative: 0.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2017

Adams Telephone Co-Operative's TCR rose 3.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Golden, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 1.8 · 257% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #13/19
  • PHOTO CRTSCAHN - AT&T Serv…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CRTSCAHN - AT&T Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Adams Telephone Co-Operative in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Adams Telephone Co-Operative averages 1.8 TCR (257% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Adams Telephone Co-Operative TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.6 · BLS 0.7

Where Adams Telephone Co-Operative falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 19 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Illinois.

Adams Telephone Co-Operative (77 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Adams Telephone Co-Operative
Adams Telephone Co-Operative (77 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Adams Telephone Co-Operative has fewer employees than the Telecommunications carriers, wired median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.3. 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
2017 3.6 1.2 2 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · IL · Golden

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 3 employers in Golden, IL · 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 CRTSCAHN - AT&T Services, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SRT Communications, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HSTNTXAH 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARO / PRT - Roosevelt 1513 & 1515 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Albers Farm 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Facebook DKL 1 2 NEW 20126004 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Builtech Services, LLC. 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE William A. Randolph, Inc. 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden Good Shepherd Home 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden 39 FTE
NAT-TCR 01-Memphis TN 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pinebluff Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Wagram 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3203 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100626 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE 42611b - Cranberry Dc 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE M.A. Energy Resources, LLC 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE GARCO, Inc. 77 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: 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.