Wired Telecommunications Carriers · Texas

AUSTTX02

Austin, TX · ~341 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AUSTTX02 runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wired Telecommunications Carriers workplace, earning a grade D.

AUSTTX02: 1.2 TCR = 174% of Wired Telecommunications Carriers BLS 0.7 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AUSTTX02 safety composite

AUSTTX02 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

AUSTTX02: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2019

AUSTTX02's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.2 · 174% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #36/61
  • PHOTO NJ0236CB6
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~341 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NJ0236CB6 (0.0 TCR gap)

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AUSTTX02 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AUSTTX02 averages 1.2 TCR (174% of the Wired Telecommunications Carriers BLS benchmark).

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

AUSTTX02 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2 · 2018=2 · 2019=0.9 · BLS 0.7

Where AUSTTX02 falls in its industry

537 Wired Telecommunications Carri establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 61 Wired Telecommunications Carri employers in Texas.

AUSTTX02 (341 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 AUSTTX02
AUSTTX02 (341 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

AUSTTX02 has more employees than the Wired Telecommunications Carriers median and a lower 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
2019 0.9 0.9 2 0 0
2018 2.0 1.2 3 2 0
2017 2.0 2.0 6 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · TX · Austin

537 Wired Telecommunications Carriers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, TX · 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 NJ0236CB6 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUN PRAIRIE GENERAL OFC 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FORT WAYNE STATE HDQ & G.O. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Tower 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE HAMMETT EXCAVATION, Inc. 341 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harbison-Fischer 341 FTE
STATE-SIZE Standard Motor Products, Inc 341 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3302 341 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR HP - CA (San Bernardino) 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Electrolux - CA 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Resource Recovery 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Stafek and Son Trucking Inc 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avera Plaza 2 341 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Wayne (Bluffton Road) 341 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 512 29 1/2 Road 341 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mesa Golfland SunSplash 341 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: 2019, 2018, 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.