Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying · Minnesota

Anderson Underground, Inc.

Sauk Rapids, MN · ~44 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Anderson Underground, Inc. runs at 263% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying workplace, earning a grade F.

Anderson Underground, Inc.: 7.4 TCR = 263% of Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Anderson Underground, Inc. safety composite

Anderson Underground, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 22% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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).

F

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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%).

Anderson Underground, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Anderson Underground, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 6.1 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.1 · 2018=11.1 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=12.8 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Sauk Rapids, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 263% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #24/38
  • PHOTO Tilson Technology Ma…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tilson Technology Management, Inc. East Hartford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Anderson Underground, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Anderson Underground, Inc. averages 7.4 TCR (263% of the Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS benchmark).

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

Anderson Underground, Inc. TCR series: 2017=6.1 · 2018=11.1 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=12.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Anderson Underground, Inc. falls in its industry

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 38 Underground cable (e.g., cable employers in Minnesota.

Anderson Underground, Inc. (44 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 Anderson Underground, Inc.
Anderson Underground, Inc. (44 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Anderson Underground, Inc. has fewer employees than the Underground cable (e.g., cable televisio 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
2023 5.8 2.9 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 12.8 8.5 5 1 0
2020 10.4 6.2 4 1 1
2019 5.3 0.0 2 0 0
2018 11.1 8.9 5 0 0
2017 6.1 4.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · MN · Sauk Rapids

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 50 employers in Sauk Rapids, MN · 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 Tilson Technology Management, Inc. East Hartford 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSK21 - NSK21 - Kent2 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Illinois Electrical Coop 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VCI:VC070 - VC070-VCI - Sun Valley, CA 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE West River 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monticello Training Ctr-LL 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Treatment Facility 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE WasteWater Treatment Facility 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR J-Berd Mechanical Contractors INC 487 FTE
CITY-NEAR J-Berd Mechanical 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR 320141 - Various Mobile 306 FTE
NAT-TCR Lutheran Nursing Home 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoreline Fire Department 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR American Bituminous Company 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mitchell County Hospital Health Systems 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE NAGL Manufacturing 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE BT Pensacola 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elrods Cost Plus #9 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matthew Brian Hitchcock, LLC 44 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.