Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying · New York

Custom Crews Inc.

Lockport, NY · ~24 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Custom Crews Inc. runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying workplace, earning a grade D.

Custom Crews Inc.: 5.4 TCR = 192% of Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Custom Crews Inc. safety composite

Custom Crews Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

TCR Δ

−13.9

2016→2023

Custom Crews Inc. injury rate improved

Custom Crews Inc.'s TCR fell 13.9 from 17.8 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 17.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=17.8 · 2017=9.2 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Lockport, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 192% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #35/44
  • PHOTO Organizaiton
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Organizaiton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Custom Crews Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Custom Crews Inc. averages 5.4 TCR (192% of the Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS benchmark).

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

Custom Crews Inc. TCR series: 2016=17.8 · 2017=9.2 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Custom Crews Inc. falls in its industry

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 44 Underground cable (e.g., cable employers in New York.

Custom Crews Inc. (24 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Custom Crews Inc.
Custom Crews Inc. (24 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Custom Crews Inc. has fewer employees than the Underground cable (e.g., cable televisio 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 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2022 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2018 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 9.2 9.2 2 0 0
2016 17.8 13.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · NY · Lockport

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 85 employers in Lockport, NY · 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 Organizaiton 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AES Huntington Beach 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Pacific Telecom, LLC 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bittner Singer Orchards 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Organic Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawnel Farms 2 LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dairy 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Lockport Components 1,627 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Components Holdings- Lockport, NY 1,383 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Avenue 427 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2107 367 FTE
NAT-TCR Solstice Sleep Products 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1120 - Washington Dc 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Texas Clay Brick Plants 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fire Station I 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grace House Assisted Living 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCoys Building Supply - League City 24 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, 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.