Telecommunications carriers, wired · Oklahoma

Cox Communications - Tulsa

Tulsa, OK · ~443 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cox Communications - Tulsa runs at 244% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Cox Communications - Tulsa: 1.7 TCR = 244% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cox Communications - Tulsa safety composite

Cox Communications - Tulsa scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2016→2020

Cox Communications - Tulsa injury rate improved

Cox Communications - Tulsa's TCR fell 0.4 from 1.7 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.7 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=2.0 · 2020=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Tulsa, OK ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 1.7 · 244% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #10/16
  • PHOTO Randolph Telephone M…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~443 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Randolph Telephone Membership Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cox Communications - Tulsa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cox Communications - Tulsa averages 1.7 TCR (244% 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 - Tulsa TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=2 · 2020=1.3 · BLS 0.7

Where Cox Communications - Tulsa falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oklahoma alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 16 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Oklahoma.

Cox Communications - Tulsa (443 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 - Tulsa
Cox Communications - Tulsa (443 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Cox Communications - Tulsa has more employees than the Telecommunications carriers, wired median and a higher 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 1.3 0.7 6 0 0
2019 2.0 1.3 9 0 0
2018 1.4 1.4 6 0 0
2017 2.1 1.0 8 0 0
2016 1.7 1.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · OK · Tulsa

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,320 rated employers in Oklahoma with headcount on file · 1,004 employers in Tulsa, OK · 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 Randolph Telephone Membership Corporation 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RCSNTXTL 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ben Lomand Connect (Outside Plant) 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hamilton County Telephone Co-op 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 389 443 FTE
STATE-SIZE 41 444 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Enid Plant 446 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solutions Through Innovative Technologies Inc 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Francis Hospital, Inc. 6,668 FTE
CITY-NEAR H&P IDC - U.S. Land 6,014 FTE
CITY-NEAR TUL-TULSA-MAINTENANCE BASE 5,184 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-TUL-TULSA-TUL-TRML 4,794 FTE
NAT-TCR NAVFAC SW Environmental Services Contract 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Our Lady of Life 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Joy Global Underground Mining LLC- Meadow Lands 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kernersville Tube Plant 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE LCI Main Office Location 1 443 FTE
NAT-SIZE New York Corporate Office 443 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azcona Harvesting, LLC 443 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana University Health Bedford, Inc. 443 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.