Cellular phone tower construction · Wisconsin

Blackhawk Tower Communications

Sun Prairie, WI · ~23 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Blackhawk Tower Communications runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cellular phone tower construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Blackhawk Tower Communications: 1.0 TCR = 36% of Cellular phone tower construction BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blackhawk Tower Communications safety composite

Blackhawk Tower Communications scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

Blackhawk Tower Communications held a steady TCR band

Blackhawk Tower Communications's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Sun Prairie, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 36% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/40
  • PHOTO Tower Pros LLC - For…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tower Pros LLC - Fort Wayne (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blackhawk Tower Communications in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blackhawk Tower Communications averages 1.0 TCR (36% of the Cellular phone tower construction BLS benchmark).

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

Blackhawk Tower Communications TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Blackhawk Tower Communications falls in its industry

1,605 Cellular phone tower construct establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 40 Cellular phone tower construct employers in Wisconsin.

Blackhawk Tower Communications (23 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Blackhawk Tower Communications
Blackhawk Tower Communications (23 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Blackhawk Tower Communications has fewer employees than the Cellular phone tower construction 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2021 4.7 0.0 1 0 1
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · WI · Sun Prairie

1,605 Cellular phone tower construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 69 employers in Sun Prairie, WI · 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 Tower Pros LLC - Fort Wayne 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tower Pros LLC - Lombard 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Champion Specialty Services, LLC @ Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chandler Line 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE W3855 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Badger Unified Cooperative Services 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE 768 New Richmond Agronomy 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE 079 Evansville Agronomy 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sun Prairie Location 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1267 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR SUN PRAIRIE GENERAL OFC 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR CB Sun Prairie 275 FTE
NAT-TCR AllCare Management Services 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2184 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Norstan Communications Inc - TX, Austin & (BOA)* 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sigma Thermal, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE F S Vanhoose & CO 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwest Land Water & Pipe, LLC, 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCRT3 Troy 1 Tenant LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corson Feed 23 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, 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.