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

Benchmark Utility Services

Name: Benchmark Utility Services Workplace Safety Data
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Sterling, VA · ~347 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.4
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Benchmark Utility Services runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying workplace, earning a grade A.

Benchmark Utility Services: 0.4 TCR = 14% of Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Benchmark Utility Services safety composite

Benchmark Utility Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Benchmark Utility Services: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Benchmark Utility Services's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Sterling, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 14% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #4/45
PHOTO Unbridled
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~347 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unbridled (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.4
Unbridled

0.4
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0.4
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0.4
Skyhawk Solar

0.4

What this shows Benchmark Utility Services averages 0.4 TCR (14% of the Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS benchmark).

Benchmark Utility Services TCR series: 2018=0 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Benchmark Utility Services falls in its industry

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

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 45 Underground cable (e.g., cable employers in Virginia.

Benchmark Utility Services (347 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Benchmark Utility Services has more employees than the Underground cable (e.g., cable televisio median and a lower 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	0.8	0.0	4	0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · VA · Sterling

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 222 employers in Sterling, VA · 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	Unbridled	ROBARDS, KY	0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Vogtle Unit 3 & 4 Project- CBI Services, LLC	WAYNESBORO, GA	0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Source Power LLC	SAN ANTONIO, TX	0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Skyhawk Solar Project	UNION, TN	0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	C. J. Coakley Co., Inc.	FAIRFAX	347 FTE
STATE-SIZE	B&S Site Development, LLC	MANASSAS	347 FTE
STATE-SIZE	HoneywellVA05	COLONIAL HEIGHTS	347 FTE
STATE-SIZE	3214	SUFFOLK	347 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AMZL : DDC4	Sterling	868 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Wegmans Dulles 007	Sterling	478 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Prospect Waterproofing Company	Sterling	465 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2038	Sterling	421 FTE
NAT-TCR	Olsen Chain & Cable Co Inc.	Edina, MN	0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Town Library	Bethel, CT	0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lantronix, Inc.	Irvine, CA	0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Corporate Headquarters	Los Alamitos, CA	0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Filer City, Mi	Filer City, MI	347 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Vector Resources Incorporated dba Vectorusa	Torrance, CA	347 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Chimes District of Columbia, Baltimore Washington Airport	Glen Burnie, MD	347 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hella Electronics Corporation	Flora, IL	347 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, 2018. 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.