Telecommunications carriers, wired · Georgia

Ellijay Telephone

Ellijay, GA · ~158 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ellijay Telephone runs at 431% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Ellijay Telephone: 3.0 TCR = 431% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ellijay Telephone safety composite

Ellijay Telephone scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−0.9

2016→2019

Ellijay Telephone injury rate improved

Ellijay Telephone's TCR fell 0.9 from 3.1 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Ellijay, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 3.0 · 431% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #24/24
  • PHOTO Point Broadband Fibe…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ellijay Telephone in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ellijay Telephone averages 3.0 TCR (431% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Ellijay Telephone TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=2.2 · BLS 0.7

Where Ellijay Telephone falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 24 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Georgia.

Ellijay Telephone (158 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Ellijay Telephone
Ellijay Telephone (158 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Ellijay Telephone has fewer 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
2019 2.2 0.0 3 0 0
2018 2.8 0.7 4 0 0
2017 4.1 1.4 6 0 0
2016 3.1 2.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · GA · Ellijay

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 23 employers in Ellijay, GA · 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 Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ritter Communications - Rogers 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARO / PRT - Hato Rey Parada 35 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bend (Nels Anderson Rd) 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Baker Constructors, Inc. Georgia Division 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cargill, Incorporated-Gainesville Plant 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Profile Custom Extrusions 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASI-900 Facility 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant 829 FTE
CITY-NEAR HMS 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitepath Fab Tech 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 409 154 FTE
NAT-TCR Dayton Plant 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Moser's Foods #1 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR OCV Control Valves LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #796 (Kasson, MN) 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Purity - Nashville 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Returns R Us Incorporated dba Pharma Logistics Ltd 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE True Value Allentown RDC 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laars Heating Systems Company 158 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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