Telecommunications carriers, wired · Montana

Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc

Missoula, MT · ~164 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc runs at 420% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc: 2.9 TCR = 420% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc safety composite

Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc: 1.8 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc's TCR rose 2.3 from 1.8 in 2023 to 4.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517311 · Missoula, MT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 2.9 · 420% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK P49
  • PHOTO Hotwire Communicatio…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hotwire Communications - Boyton Warehouse (0.1 TCR gap)

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Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc averages 2.9 TCR (420% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc TCR series: 2023=1.8 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 0.7

Where Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc falls in its industry

61 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc (164 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc
Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc (164 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc has more employees than the Telecommunications carriers, wired median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 4.1 1.8 7 0 0
2023 1.8 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517311 · MT · Missoula

61 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 181 employers in Missoula, MT · 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 Hotwire Communications - Boyton Warehouse 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marion, IL 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City: Bldg 9701 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lufkin: Construction 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE ABS-0030-0030-01227 FAC-01227-BILLINGS-MT 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTKAL - KALISPELL 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Re Investment Co LLC 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supply Chain : Montana Precision Products 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000460 2,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR MT190 ST PATRICK HOSPITAL-BROADWAY BLDG-MISSOU 1,966 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Medical Center 985 FTE
CITY-NEAR MSSLMTXA 670 FTE
NAT-TCR Boston Centerless 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wallace Electrical Construction, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Raley's 339-Modesto 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Frencken America 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kalamazoo Branch 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE McElroy's Inc 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sapona Yarns, LLC 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE So Cal 164 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. 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.