Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground · Arizona

BPG Designs

Tempe, AZ · ~141 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BPG Designs runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade A.

BPG Designs: 1.4 TCR = 50% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BPG Designs safety composite

BPG Designs scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2018→2019

BPG Designs injury rate improved

BPG Designs's TCR fell 1.5 from 2.1 in 2018 to 0.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.1 · 2019=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Tempe, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #18/47
  • PHOTO Paramount Designs, I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Paramount Designs, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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BPG Designs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BPG Designs averages 1.4 TCR (50% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

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

BPG Designs TCR series: 2018=2.1 · 2019=0.7 · BLS 2.8

Where BPG Designs falls in its industry

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 47 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Arizona.

BPG Designs (141 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 BPG Designs
BPG Designs (141 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

BPG Designs has more employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el 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
2019 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2018 2.1 2.1 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · AZ · Tempe

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 569 employers in Tempe, AZ · 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 Paramount Designs, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arraycon LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR T&D Solutions, LLC - Alexandria 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tel Tech Networks 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forever Nutraceutical, LLC 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHXPLT PHXPLT - PHX PLANT 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super Radiator Coils - Phoenix 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR SALT RIVER PROJECT DISTRICT VALLEY 4,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR 202376 4,627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Plants and Offices 4,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR IES Communications, LLC 3,432 FTE
NAT-TCR Rayotek 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Industrial Rubber, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tennalum, A Division of Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cdsd Hq - Chicago 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Best Care Nursing and Rehab 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE NDX Twin Cities 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Terminals - Plant 1 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clancy & Theys Construction Company - Raleigh, NC 141 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.