Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors · Virginia

Communications Specialists, Inc.

Mechanisville, VA · ~80 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Communications Specialists, Inc. runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Communications Specialists, Inc.: 2.9 TCR = 103% of Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Communications Specialists, Inc. safety composite

Communications Specialists, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

Communications Specialists, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Communications Specialists, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 1.8 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.8 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Mechanisville, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 103% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #59/80
  • PHOTO Electric Services, I…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Electric Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Communications Specialists, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Communications Specialists, Inc. averages 2.9 TCR (103% of the Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Communications Specialists, Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=1.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Communications Specialists, Inc. falls in its industry

4,550 Telecommunications equipment a establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 80 Telecommunications equipment a employers in Virginia.

Communications Specialists, Inc. (80 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 Communications Specialists, Inc.
Communications Specialists, Inc. (80 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Communications Specialists, Inc. has more employees than the Telecommunications equipment and wiring median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2018 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2017 5.3 3.5 3 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · VA · Mechanisville

4,550 Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 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 Electric Services, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TransCore - T0574 - Houston CSC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Electric, Inc 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dausin Electric Co. 2.9 TCR
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STATE-SIZE Roanoke Service Building 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE David A. Nice Builders, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Christian Siding LLC 80 FTE
NAT-TCR Flint St. Plant 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Somerset (Kysom) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mirmont Alcohol Rehabilitation Center 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR UFP Mid- Atlantic, LLC #286 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Spring 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1730 LKQ/Keystone 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Twin Farms 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Excelsior Springs Nursing and Rehab LLC 80 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.