Telecommunications carriers, wired · Iowa

Ft Dodge IA Site

Ft Dodge, IA · ~28 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ft Dodge IA Site runs at 376% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Ft Dodge IA Site: 2.6 TCR = 376% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ft Dodge IA Site safety composite

Ft Dodge IA Site scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−6.7

2016→2024

Ft Dodge IA Site injury rate improved

Ft Dodge IA Site's TCR fell 6.7 from 6.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=7.1 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Ft Dodge, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 2.6 · 376% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Starpower Communicat…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Starpower Communications dba RCN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ft Dodge IA Site in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ft Dodge IA Site averages 2.6 TCR (376% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Ft Dodge IA Site TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 0.7

Where Ft Dodge IA Site falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Iowa.

Ft Dodge IA Site (28 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Ft Dodge IA Site
Ft Dodge IA Site (28 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Ft Dodge IA Site 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.1 7.1 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.4 6.4 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 6.7 6.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · IA · Ft Dodge

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Starpower Communications dba RCN 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SNRMCA69 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dell Rapids 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Levittown 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE IOWA ADMIN 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pocahontas Warehouse 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE WCT Crystal Lake 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Council Bluff W Broadway (IA001) 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR RMS Cranes, LLC. - Iowa Branch 11 FTE
NAT-TCR Great Bend 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RESH, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Beau Rivage Resorts Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Plains Synfuels Plant 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Barro's Pizza, Grayhawk 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enterprise Rent-A-Car-0378 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE At Home Stores #86 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE At Home Stores #72 28 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.

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

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