Cellular phone tower construction · Maryland

Columbia, MD PS

Columbia, MD · ~76 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia, MD PS runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cellular phone tower construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Columbia, MD PS: 1.2 TCR = 41% of Cellular phone tower construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia, MD PS safety composite

Columbia, MD PS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2016→2021

Columbia, MD PS injury rate improved

Columbia, MD PS's TCR fell 0.6 from 0.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.6 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Columbia, MD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/26
  • PHOTO Ritel Tower Services
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ritel Tower Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbia, MD PS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia, MD PS averages 1.2 TCR (41% 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

Columbia, MD PS TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Columbia, MD PS falls in its industry

1,605 Cellular phone tower construct establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 26 Cellular phone tower construct employers in Maryland.

Columbia, MD PS (76 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 Columbia, MD PS
Columbia, MD PS (76 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Columbia, MD PS has more 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2019 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2016 0.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · MD · Columbia

1,605 Cellular phone tower construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 179 employers in Columbia, MD · 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 Ritel Tower Services 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Line Builders, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DJ's Electrical, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Enertech Resources LLC 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southern Region Facility 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE J. F. Fischer, Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cochran & Mann, Inc 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Niagara Bottling LLC - Baltimore 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard County General Hospital 1,952 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate HQ 712 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring Inc - Columbia 586 FTE
NAT-TCR Startkleen Legacy, LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR McVac Environmental Services, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Evonik Corporation, Wichita Kansas 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 42671c - Manassas Bin 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Darby Doors LLC HQ-Main 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE TC Transcontinental Multi Film 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seidel Tanning Corp. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Del Papa Distributing - SOU 76 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.