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

Construction Austin

Athens, TX · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Construction Austin runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade D.

Construction Austin: 4.3 TCR = 153% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Construction Austin safety composite

Construction Austin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

Construction Austin held a steady TCR band

Construction Austin's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.0 in 2021 to 3.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.0 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Athens, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 153% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #127/161
  • PHOTO NA-US-PA-Pittsburgh-…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NA-US-PA-Pittsburgh-Herron Avenue (0.0 TCR gap)

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Construction Austin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Construction Austin averages 4.3 TCR (153% 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

Construction Austin TCR series: 2021=3 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=3.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Construction Austin falls in its industry

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

Safer than 25% 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 #127 safest of 161 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Texas.

Construction Austin (28 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Construction Austin
Construction Austin (28 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Construction Austin has fewer employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el 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
2023 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2022 6.7 3.3 2 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · TX · Athens

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 44 employers in Athens, 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 NA-US-PA-Pittsburgh-Herron Avenue 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DUS 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Excell Communications 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NFS:NFSL1 - NFSL1-Salt Lake City, UT 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village farms of Fort Worth 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle X Land & Cattle Co., Ltd. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Happy Hen Harwood 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ten Hi Gin INC 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biomerics 504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Argon Medical Devices Inc. 472 FTE
CITY-NEAR UT Health Athens 466 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biomerics FMI 453 FTE
NAT-TCR VRC Metal Systems, Box Elder 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1744 WEST BABYLON, NY 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Snf Chemical - Riceboro Ga 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Robinson Paving Company 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE PW Utilities - Water Facility Operations- Central/North/South 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn Murfreesboro 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anthony'S Coal Fired Pizza of Wayne, LLC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roofco LLC 28 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.