Cellular phone tower construction · Wisconsin

Headquarters

Cottage Grove, WI · ~52 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Headquarters runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cellular phone tower construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Headquarters: 3.2 TCR = 113% of Cellular phone tower construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Headquarters safety composite

Headquarters scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Headquarters: 5.2 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2024

Headquarters's TCR rose 0.4 from 5.2 in 2019 to 5.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Cottage Grove, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 113% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #21/40
  • PHOTO Southwest Energy Sol…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southwest Energy Solutions (South / TEP) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Headquarters in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Headquarters averages 3.2 TCR (113% of the Cellular phone tower construction BLS benchmark).

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

Headquarters TCR series: 2019=5.2 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=3 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Headquarters falls in its industry

1,605 Cellular phone tower construct establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 40 Cellular phone tower construct employers in Wisconsin.

Headquarters (52 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 Headquarters
Headquarters (52 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Headquarters has fewer employees than the Cellular phone tower construction 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
2024 5.5 3.7 3 0 0
2023 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2022 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2021 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2020 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2019 5.2 3.4 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · WI · Cottage Grove

1,605 Cellular phone tower construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 25 employers in Cottage Grove, WI · 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 Southwest Energy Solutions (South / TEP) 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michels Power Inc-NM-Albuquerque 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Broadcast Construction Solutions LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maslonka Powerline Services 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE ABS Dekorra 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milk Source, LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfire Management Services, LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoffman Planning, Design & Construction Inc 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson Health Tech North America, Inc. 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shared Medical Services 384 FTE
CITY-NEAR R. G. Huston Co., Inc. 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cottage Grove East (CGE) - Main St 116 FTE
NAT-TCR Nelson Electric, Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Arlene Resource Management LLC 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pret U of Penn 2nd F 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 61 - Northeast Philadelphia 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE location 20833 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monahans Terminal 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franz Family Bakeries Parkland 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE SB Houston 21 LLC 52 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. 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.