Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground · Texas

AM Communications TX

Name: AM Communications TX Workplace Safety Data
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Lubbock, TX · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 18.1
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

AM Communications TX runs at 645% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade F.

AM Communications TX: 18.1 TCR = 645% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AM Communications TX safety composite

AM Communications TX scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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).

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 18.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers
DART rate: F 20.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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

AM Communications TX: 15.4 → 20.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 20.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2021

AM Communications TX's TCR rose 5.4 from 15.4 in 2020 to 20.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Lubbock, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.1 · 645% of ind

DART 20.8 DART
RANK #161/161
PHOTO SOUTHERN INSTALLATIO…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SOUTHERN INSTALLATIONS, INC. (0.7 TCR gap)

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Headquarters

19.1
Perham, MN (AE

18.8
SOUTHERN INSTA

18.7
This site

18.1
Telecable Inc

17.2

What this shows AM Communications TX averages 18.1 TCR (645% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

AM Communications TX TCR series: 2020=15.4 · 2021=20.8 · BLS 2.8

Where AM Communications TX falls in its industry

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #161 safest of 161 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Texas.

AM Communications TX (37 employees, TCR 18.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

AM Communications TX has fewer employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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	20.8	20.8	5	0	0
2020	15.4	4.4	7	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · TX · Lubbock

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 482 employers in Lubbock, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	SOUTHERN INSTALLATIONS, INC.	LEXINGTON, SC	18.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Perham, MN (AEIS)	PERHAM, MN	18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Telecable Inc	SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ	17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Headquarters	LOVELAND, CO	19.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Fannin Growing	HOWE	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bovina Cattle Company	BOVINA	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Skyland Grain, LLC- Spearman Gin	SPEARMAN	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Alura Cogen	CHANNELVIEW	37 FTE
CITY-NEAR	A01 Covenant Medical Center	Lubbock	3,178 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2004-20049000	Lubbock	2,269 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FALCON HEALTHCARE INC DBA INTERIM HEALTHCARE	Lubbock	2,046 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Covenant Health System	Lubbock	1,761 FTE
NAT-TCR	MN Dept of Corrections - Rush City	Rush City, MN	18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	ORF - Ground Ops	Norfolk, VA	18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Blizzard Transportation LLC	Harrisonburg, VA	18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Michael Brothers Transportation	Pittsburgh, PA	18.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Drury Inn & Suites - Gainesville	Gainesville, FL	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	2450 Iorio St	Union, NJ	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Drury Inn & Suites - St. Louis O'Fallon, IL	O'Fallon, IL	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Store #111	Rayville, LA	37 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.