Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground · Maryland

Decisive Communications Inc.

Ijamsville, MD · ~354 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Decisive Communications Inc. runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade C.

Decisive Communications Inc.: 2.6 TCR = 94% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Decisive Communications Inc. safety composite

Decisive Communications Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

−0.9

2020→2024

Decisive Communications Inc. injury rate improved

Decisive Communications Inc.'s TCR fell 0.9 from 1.9 in 2020 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.9 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Ijamsville, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 94% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #13/26
  • PHOTO Track
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~354 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Track (0.0 TCR gap)

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Decisive Communications Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Decisive Communications Inc. averages 2.6 TCR (94% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

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

Decisive Communications Inc. TCR series: 2020=1.9 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=1 · BLS 2.8

Where Decisive Communications Inc. falls in its industry

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 26 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Maryland.

Decisive Communications Inc. (354 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Decisive Communications Inc.
Decisive Communications Inc. (354 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Decisive Communications Inc. has more employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el 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
2024 1.0 0.7 3 0 0
2023 2.4 2.1 8 0 0
2022 3.5 1.9 13 0 0
2021 4.4 3.0 18 0 0
2020 1.9 0.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · MD · Ijamsville

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 7 employers in Ijamsville, MD · 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 Track 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Division #11 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Sara Svc Center 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pramira, Inc. 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE H&S Bakery Operations 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE DPI Specialty Foods - Mid Atlantic 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2790 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE DOT Randolph Transp Depot 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR O'Leary Asphalt Inc. 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dustin Construction, Inc. 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montgomery 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR AIG Maryland 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 501 Charles City 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR National Distribution Centers LLC-1990 Cucamonga Ave 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 025 Clinton 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ndx D H Baker Dental Laboratory 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10513 Ink Block 354 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brunswick Boat Integrated Manufacturing Center 354 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1350 - Fishers 354 FTE
NAT-SIZE TSYS - Columbus North Center 354 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.