Communication equipment repair and maintenance services · North Carolina

Hightower Communications Inc

La Grange, NC · ~36 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hightower Communications Inc runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Communication equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade B.

Hightower Communications Inc: 1.2 TCR = 56% of Communication equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hightower Communications Inc safety composite

Hightower Communications Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Hightower Communications Inc held a steady TCR band

Hightower Communications Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811213 · La Grange, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P67
  • PHOTO SKC Communication Pr…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SKC Communication Products LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hightower Communications Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hightower Communications Inc averages 1.2 TCR (56% of the Communication equipment repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Hightower Communications Inc TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Hightower Communications Inc falls in its industry

21 Communication equipment repair establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hightower Communications Inc (36 employees, TCR 1.2) among 11 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 12 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 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Telegraph Road FacilityComSonics INCommunications Electronics- JessupTimoniumTobyhanna Army DepotComSonics, Inc - CASKC Communication Products LLCComSonics, Inc. VAGeneral Communications, Inc.Precision Electronic Repair ServicesEmergency Radio Service, LLCHightower Communications Inc
Hightower Communications Inc (36 employees, TCR 1.2) among 11 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Hightower Communications Inc has fewer employees than the Communication equipment repair and maint median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811213 · NC · La Grange

21 Communication equipment repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 13 employers in La Grange, 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 SKC Communication Products LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emergency Radio Service, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NextiraOne, LLC_NY, NEW YORK & LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Telegraph Road Facility 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Butterball Hatchery # 1 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Carolina Farms (CV) 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yadkin 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgecombe Genco, LLC. 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maxwell Foods Goldsboro Hog Farms 427 FTE
CITY-NEAR LAGRANGE BEAR CREEK ICF 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02580 - STORE # 2580 LA GRANGE 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2580 79 FTE
NAT-TCR Pointsmith 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaman Integrated Structures and Metallics 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerson Commercial and Residential Solutions 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tk Pacific 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fire Department 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sika Advance Resins - Eaton Rapids 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harvard Services Group of Iowa 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norsco Incorporated 36 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.