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

AM Communications WV

Charleston, WV · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AM Communications WV runs at 248% 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 WV: 7.0 TCR = 248% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AM Communications WV safety composite

AM Communications WV scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−13.0

2020→2024

AM Communications WV injury rate improved

AM Communications WV's TCR fell 13.0 from 13.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=13.0 · 2021=7.1 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Charleston, WV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 248% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P12
  • PHOTO L & M Underground, I…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: L & M Underground, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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AM Communications WV in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AM Communications WV averages 7.0 TCR (248% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

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

AM Communications WV TCR series: 2020=13 · 2021=7.1 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where AM Communications WV falls in its industry

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

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
AM Communications WV (27 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 AM Communications WV
AM Communications WV (27 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

AM Communications WV 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 7.7 7.7 1 0 0
2021 7.1 7.1 2 0 0
2020 13.0 5.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · WV · Charleston

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 158 employers in Charleston, WV · 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 L & M Underground, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPA:SP001 - SP001-Tjader-New Richmond, WI 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rylie Equipment & Contracting 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ground Support Group 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danhill Construction Co. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Electric, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAMC Memorial Hospital 3,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAMC Memorial Division 3,374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital 3,232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston Area Medical Center General Division 1,990 FTE
NAT-TCR PIT-ITP 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 10677 Concord 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 10441 Malibu 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0050 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE WACO Products, Inc 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beach Area FHC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE HIV Services - Pumpkin Building 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wisconsin Humane Society - Ozaukee Campus 27 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, 2020. 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.