Airborne radio communications equipment manufacturing · Colorado

Custom Microwave Inc.

Longmont, CO · ~68 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Custom Microwave Inc. runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Airborne radio communications equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Custom Microwave Inc.: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Airborne radio communications equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Custom Microwave Inc. safety composite

Custom Microwave Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Custom Microwave Inc.: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.89× in 2023

Custom Microwave Inc.'s TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334220 · Longmont, CO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO ECHO Mountain Realty
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ECHO Mountain Realty (0.0 TCR gap)

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Custom Microwave Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Custom Microwave Inc. averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Airborne radio communications equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Custom Microwave Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Custom Microwave Inc. falls in its industry

247 Airborne radio communications establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Airborne radio communications employers in Colorado.

Custom Microwave Inc. (68 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 115 employees and a TCR of 1.1 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 05001,0001,500 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Custom Microwave Inc.
Custom Microwave Inc. (68 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 115 employees and a TCR of 1.1

Custom Microwave Inc. has fewer employees than the Airborne radio communications equipment median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.1. 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 2.5 2.5 1 1 0
2022 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.2 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334220 · CO · Longmont

247 Airborne radio communications equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 182 employers in Longmont, CO · 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 ECHO Mountain Realty 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AST SpaceMobile Service LLC Site 1 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HPASC01 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Viasat - Washington, DC 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ultra Petroleum Company UPL 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utah Gas Corp 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Groundworks Colorado Springs 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Malm Electrical Contractors LLC. 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Longmont, CO 1,167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Longmont United Hospital 638 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-05500001-055001 562 FTE
CITY-NEAR Longs Peak Hospital 537 FTE
NAT-TCR CBB Pittsburgh 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Discount Pallet Company 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bennett Plastics Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR D87 Las Vegas 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE The oil and Lubricant depot 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Simulab Corporation 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harbor Area Gang Alternatives Program 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sitex Land, LLC 68 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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