Telecommunications · North Carolina

GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC

Durham, NC · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade C.

GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC: 2.3 TCR = 82% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC safety composite

GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Rising injury rate

GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC: 0.0 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2020

GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC's TCR rose 6.9 from 0.0 in 2018 to 6.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Durham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 82% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #42/79
  • PHOTO UTILITY LINES CONSTR…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UTILITY LINES CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, LLC 117 (0.0 TCR gap)

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GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC averages 2.3 TCR (82% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

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

GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.9 · BLS 2.8

Where GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC falls in its industry

1,605 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 79 Telecommunications employers in North Carolina.

GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC (29 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC
GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC (29 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

GCI:GCDUR - GCDUR-Durham, NC has fewer employees than the Telecommunications 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
2020 6.9 6.9 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · NC · Durham

1,605 Telecommunications employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, NC · 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 UTILITY LINES CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, LLC 117 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Basin Electric - Gillette 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fonua Construction LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patriot Underground Solutions Specialist LLC 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - NCC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Sandhill 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cowans Ford 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Craven County Wood Energy 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR Milford Medical Center 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR BlueLinx Corporation Elkhart 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Desoto Memorial Hospital 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 471 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ECC:EC010 - EC010-Bessemer, AL - 0100 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCS:TC432 - TC432-Dallas, TX 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE ANS:ANALP - ANALP-Alpharetta, GA 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kipling & Coal Mine KC 29 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.