Telecommunications carriers, wired · Nebraska

Great Plains Communications

Blair, NE · ~448 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Plains Communications runs at 356% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Great Plains Communications: 2.5 TCR = 356% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Plains Communications safety composite

Great Plains Communications scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

−3.3

2021→2024

Great Plains Communications injury rate improved

Great Plains Communications's TCR fell 3.3 from 4.9 in 2021 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.9 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Blair, NE ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 2.5 · 356% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Rochester Telephone …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~448 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rochester Telephone Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Plains Communications in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Plains Communications averages 2.5 TCR (356% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Great Plains Communications TCR series: 2021=4.9 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 0.7

Where Great Plains Communications falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Nebraska.

Great Plains Communications (448 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Great Plains Communications
Great Plains Communications (448 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Great Plains Communications has more 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 1.6 0.0 6 0 0
2023 1.3 0.8 5 0 0
2022 2.2 0.3 5 3 0
2021 4.9 0.0 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · NE · Blair

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 43 employers in Blair, NE · 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 Rochester Telephone Company 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1101 Stewart Ave 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARO / PRT - Penuelas CO 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pampa 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Structural Component Systems Inc 448 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Pork International, Inc. 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rotella's Italian Bakery, Inc. 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DOM1 450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blair, DC 620 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill - Blair 537 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodhouse Ford Chrysler 328 FTE
NAT-TCR Danville Regional Medical Center - EVS 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 205 - Lowell 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Turkey Hill LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sysco Syracuse 448 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lund International 448 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville Water Company 448 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wegmans Hanover 128 448 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. 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.