Telecommunications carriers, wired · North Carolina

BalsamWest FiberNET LLC

Sylva, NC · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BalsamWest FiberNET LLC runs at 364% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

BalsamWest FiberNET LLC: 2.5 TCR = 364% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BalsamWest FiberNET LLC safety composite

BalsamWest FiberNET LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

BalsamWest FiberNET LLC: 2.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

BalsamWest FiberNET LLC's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.0 in 2022 to 3.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Sylva, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 2.5 · 364% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO Mason City IA Site
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mason City IA Site (0.0 TCR gap)

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BalsamWest FiberNET LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BalsamWest FiberNET LLC averages 2.5 TCR (364% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

BalsamWest FiberNET LLC TCR series: 2022=2 · 2023=2 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 0.7

Where BalsamWest FiberNET LLC falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 14 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in North Carolina.

BalsamWest FiberNET LLC (51 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 BalsamWest FiberNET LLC
BalsamWest FiberNET LLC (51 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

BalsamWest FiberNET LLC 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
2024 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2022 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · NC · Sylva

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Sylva, NC · 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 Mason City IA Site 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cox Communications - Tulsa Main Office 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DLLGTX28 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HSTNTX07 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hawksridge Farms, Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington Operations Center 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRB Group North Carolina LLC - Charlotte Division 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE All other sites Gastonia 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR HARRIS REGIONAL HOSPITAL 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jackson County 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR DLP Harris Regional Hospital LLC 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2440 300 FTE
NAT-TCR 250 - Gaylord MI 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bagcraft Packaging-COI-Turnbull 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Simmons Feed & Supply LLC DBA Simmons Grain Co 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DMD Management Co Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Kismet 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Presbyterian Villages of Michigan 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun Terrace Hermiston 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warehouse 8 51 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, 2022. 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.