Telecommunications carriers, wired · Kansas

Cox Communications - KS COE

Wichita, KS · ~314 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cox Communications - KS COE runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade A.

Cox Communications - KS COE: 0.1 TCR = 19% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cox Communications - KS COE safety composite

Cox Communications - KS COE scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Cox Communications - KS COE: 0.0 → 0.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 0.4 TCR · DART/TCR 3.08× in 2018

Cox Communications - KS COE's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 3.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Wichita, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Tech Park
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~314 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tech Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cox Communications - KS COE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cox Communications - KS COE averages 0.1 TCR (19% 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 - KS COE TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.4 · BLS 0.7

Where Cox Communications - KS COE falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 92% 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 #1 safest of 5 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Kansas.

Cox Communications - KS COE (314 employees, TCR 0.1) 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 - KS COE
Cox Communications - KS COE (314 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Cox Communications - KS COE 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
2018 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 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 Tech Park 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALPRGAED 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DLLSTXAK 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TAMVFL04 - AT&T Services, Inc. 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 382 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitt Plastics Pittsburg 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE SPX Cooling Technologies 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE 799 313 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 Northlake TX 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Iowa City North Dodge (ICND) 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A. Inc. 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ExxonMobil Global Services Company Hughes Landing 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hubbell Wiring Device (Delaware) 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bayside Center (Flbay) 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHI Health Nebraska Heart 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE Open Systems Healthcare - Reading 314 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.