Communication equipment repair and maintenance services · South Carolina

Hightower Communications Inc. SC

Lexington, SC · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hightower Communications Inc. SC runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Communication equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade C.

Hightower Communications Inc. SC: 2.1 TCR = 101% of Communication equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hightower Communications Inc. SC safety composite

Hightower Communications Inc. SC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hightower Communications Inc. SC: 0.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Hightower Communications Inc. SC's TCR rose 4.3 from 0.0 in 2023 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811213 · Lexington, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 101% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P38
  • PHOTO Norstan Communicatio…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Norstan Communications Inc - MN(MG Branch) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hightower Communications Inc. SC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hightower Communications Inc. SC averages 2.1 TCR (101% 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. SC TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 2.1

Where Hightower Communications Inc. SC falls in its industry

21 Communication equipment repair establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hightower Communications Inc. SC (20 employees, TCR 2.1) among 12 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 13 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 Hightower Communications Inc. SC
Hightower Communications Inc. SC (20 employees, TCR 2.1) among 12 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Hightower Communications Inc. SC has fewer employees than the Communication equipment repair and maint median and a higher 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
2024 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811213 · SC · Lexington

21 Communication equipment repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 136 employers in Lexington, SC · 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 Norstan Communications Inc - MN(MG Branch) 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branch 64 - Wichita 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tobyhanna Army Depot 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Virginia 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Log Creek Timber Company Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dorchestor 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dorchester Biomass LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE FIELD SERVICES TECH BUILDING 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Lexington 1,630 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin US5 Lexington SC 1,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin North America US7 838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia 760 FTE
NAT-TCR Coca Cola Puerto Rico Bottler 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Linde Gas & Equpment Inc - Cahokia 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Le Meridien Columbus, The Joseph 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Krische Construction, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manko Window Systems, Inc. dba Interstate Glass 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weatherford 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hills Food Store #3 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE PANG Fire Dept 20 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. 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.