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

Duda Cable Construction Inc.

Vandergrift, PA · ~93 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Duda Cable Construction Inc. runs at 287% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade F.

Duda Cable Construction Inc.: 8.0 TCR = 287% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Duda Cable Construction Inc. safety composite

Duda Cable Construction Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 21% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

12/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

−11.1

2016→2024

Duda Cable Construction Inc. injury rate improved

Duda Cable Construction Inc.'s TCR fell 11.1 from 17.3 in 2016 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 17.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=17.3 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=10.0 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Vandergrift, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 287% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #50/54
  • PHOTO Cobalt Power Systems…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cobalt Power Systems, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Duda Cable Construction Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Duda Cable Construction Inc. averages 8.0 TCR (287% 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

Duda Cable Construction Inc. TCR series: 2016=17.3 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=10 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Duda Cable Construction Inc. falls in its industry

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

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 54 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Pennsylvania.

Duda Cable Construction Inc. (93 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 Duda Cable Construction Inc.
Duda Cable Construction Inc. (93 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Duda Cable Construction 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 6.2 3.1 6 0 0
2023 7.2 5.4 8 0 0
2022 10.0 9.0 10 0 1
2021 5.7 5.0 9 0 0
2020 7.6 2.9 8 0 0
2019 5.3 3.1 5 0 0
2018 6.9 6.9 6 0 0
2017 6.2 3.1 6 0 0
2016 17.3 17.3 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · PA · Vandergrift

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 7 employers in Vandergrift, PA · 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 Cobalt Power Systems, Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-CA-Milpitas-418-South Abbott Avenue 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LC037 - Okahumpka, FL 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-CA-Vista-Oak Ridge Way 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Holistic Farms LLC 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunter Roberts Construction Group- PA 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE A. Liberoni Inc 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lorne G. Seifert, LLC 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Vandergrift Inc. 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vandergrift Operations 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Uncle Charley's Sausage 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR kensington HPP, Inc 73 FTE
NAT-TCR R & R Asphalt Inc 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GGI Secaucus 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Naturescape Design Inc. DBA Naturescape Irrigation 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Casga - San Gabriel Hub 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE JAAM Electric 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barksdale Dental Lab 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE TDI Jacksonville 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primus Aerospace 93 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, 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.