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

Centric Texas Fiber

The Woodlands, TX · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Centric Texas Fiber runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying workplace, earning a grade D.

Centric Texas Fiber: 5.1 TCR = 182% of Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Centric Texas Fiber safety composite

Centric Texas Fiber scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Centric Texas Fiber: 4.2 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.75× in 2024

Centric Texas Fiber's TCR rose 4.7 from 4.2 in 2022 to 8.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · The Woodlands, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 182% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #132/161
  • PHOTO Gudenkauf
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gudenkauf (0.0 TCR gap)

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Centric Texas Fiber in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Centric Texas Fiber averages 5.1 TCR (182% of the Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS benchmark).

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

Centric Texas Fiber TCR series: 2022=4.2 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Centric Texas Fiber falls in its industry

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

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #132 safest of 161 Underground cable (e.g., cable employers in Texas.

Centric Texas Fiber (40 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Centric Texas Fiber
Centric Texas Fiber (40 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Centric Texas Fiber has fewer employees than the Underground cable (e.g., cable televisio median and a higher 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 8.9 8.9 5 0 0
2023 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2022 4.2 4.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · TX · The Woodlands

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 160 employers in The Woodlands, TX · 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 Gudenkauf 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-AZ-Phoenix/Deer Valley-Pinnacle Peak Road 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LCS:LC043 - LC043-Mechanicsville, VA 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction Van Alstyne 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE RCB Ventures, LLC dba Tri-Tex Grass 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cook Canyon Ranch 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Feedyard 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kurten Location 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Strike 3,372 FTE
CITY-NEAR MedData, Inc. 2,438 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital 2,185 FTE
CITY-NEAR W W Webber LLC 1,948 FTE
NAT-TCR Advance Construction Technology 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wesley Woods Geriatric Hosp - 1817 - EHC 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR AL013 Rocky Creek Lumber 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR WI050 Sheboygan Container 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Durango 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kamps Pallets Norwood 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota State College Southeast Red Wing Campus 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neuroscience Institute 40 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.