Telecommunications · California

GS500 - GSU - Sacramento

Sacramento, CA · ~91 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GS500 - GSU - Sacramento runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade F.

GS500 - GSU - Sacramento: 6.3 TCR = 225% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GS500 - GSU - Sacramento safety composite

GS500 - GSU - Sacramento scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

GS500 - GSU - Sacramento: 1.3 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 13.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2018

GS500 - GSU - Sacramento's TCR rose 2.8 from 1.3 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 13.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Sacramento, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 225% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #117/147
  • PHOTO Ottertail Power - Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ottertail Power - Coyote (0.0 TCR gap)

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GS500 - GSU - Sacramento in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GS500 - GSU - Sacramento averages 6.3 TCR (225% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

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

GS500 - GSU - Sacramento TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=13.5 · 2018=4.1 · BLS 2.8

Where GS500 - GSU - Sacramento falls in its industry

1,605 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #117 safest of 147 Telecommunications employers in California.

GS500 - GSU - Sacramento (91 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 GS500 - GSU - Sacramento
GS500 - GSU - Sacramento (91 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

GS500 - GSU - Sacramento has more 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
2018 4.1 4.1 4 0 0
2017 13.5 4.5 6 3 0
2016 1.3 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · CA · Sacramento

1,605 Telecommunications employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,348 employers in Sacramento, CA · 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 Ottertail Power - Coyote 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Trenching Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 460 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LC046 - Chesapeake VA 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CDK Agriculture, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belridge 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Micro Paradox 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE CFS, LP. 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Davis Health 10,481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Employment Development Department 8,494 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 451 5,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 485 5,500 FTE
NAT-TCR Dalton Facility 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Recycling Services of Indiana 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Alameda Oaks Nursing Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland Health Care Center - Ann Arbor 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Legends - Veterans at Virginia Beach 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Services : Erlanger, KY, USA 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jefferson City (Mojef) 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterloo (Inwat) 91 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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