Telecommunications carriers, wired · Kansas

Cox Communications - 901 Building

Wichita, KS · ~545 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cox Communications - 901 Building runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade D.

Cox Communications - 901 Building: 1.3 TCR = 181% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cox Communications - 901 Building safety composite

Cox Communications - 901 Building scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Cox Communications - 901 Building held a steady TCR band

Cox Communications - 901 Building's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.7 in 2016 to 0.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.7 · 2017=1.0 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Wichita, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.3 · 181% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Spencer/Spirit Lake …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~545 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spencer/Spirit Lake IA Site (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cox Communications - 901 Building in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cox Communications - 901 Building averages 1.3 TCR (181% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Cox Communications - 901 Building TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=1 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=0.6 · BLS 0.7

Where Cox Communications - 901 Building falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Kansas.

Cox Communications - 901 Building (545 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cox Communications - 901 Building
Cox Communications - 901 Building (545 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Cox Communications - 901 Building has more employees than the Telecommunications carriers, wired median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.3. 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
2020 0.6 0.4 3 0 0
2019 2.1 1.9 11 0 0
2018 1.9 1.2 9 0 0
2017 1.0 1.0 5 0 0
2016 0.7 0.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · KS · Wichita

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, KS · 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 Spencer/Spirit Lake IA Site 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NY0719CBC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Oak Mediacom 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NY0262CN4 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kansas City KS FXFE-KCY 544 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hostess Brands Emporia 549 FTE
STATE-SIZE 641 541 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 066 549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR Converse, Tx (Shared) 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Healthcare Services 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 42231d - Sterling Heights 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 2515-Grinnell, IA 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Turner at Pipe Fabrication Baton Rouge LA 545 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas - Giddings - 07 545 FTE
NAT-SIZE Faf Cmh 545 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precor Manufacturing, LLC 545 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: 2020, 2019, 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.