Low voltage electrical work · Virginia

IES Communications, LLC - Sterling

Chantilly, VA · ~207 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IES Communications, LLC - Sterling runs at 5% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Low voltage electrical work workplace, earning a grade A.

IES Communications, LLC - Sterling: 0.1 TCR = 5% of Low voltage electrical work BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IES Communications, LLC - Sterling safety composite

IES Communications, LLC - Sterling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

IES Communications, LLC - Sterling: 0.0 → 0.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

IES Communications, LLC - Sterling's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Chantilly, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 5% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/80
  • PHOTO Dubak Electrical Mai…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~207 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dubak Electrical Maintenance Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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IES Communications, LLC - Sterling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IES Communications, LLC - Sterling averages 0.1 TCR (5% of the Low voltage electrical work BLS benchmark).

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

IES Communications, LLC - Sterling TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 2.8

Where IES Communications, LLC - Sterling falls in its industry

4,550 Low voltage electrical work establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 80 Low voltage electrical work employers in Virginia.

IES Communications, LLC - Sterling (207 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate IES Communications, LLC - Sterling
IES Communications, LLC - Sterling (207 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

IES Communications, LLC - Sterling has more employees than the Low voltage electrical work median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · VA · Chantilly

4,550 Low voltage electrical work employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 140 employers in Chantilly, VA · 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 Dubak Electrical Maintenance Corporation 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ION Solar 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR A-1 Electrical Contractors, Inc. 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR E-Solutions 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE RB Hinkle Construction, Inc. 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masonite Stanley 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercury Paper - Strasburg 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ball Beverage Pkg 152 Williamsburg 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dulles (Chantilly) 1,670 FTE
CITY-NEAR GCD 1,670 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMERICAN SYSTEMS 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR VADUL - DULLES 996 FTE
NAT-TCR 2600 Weaver 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Baker Construction Enterprises, Inc. 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Zahyoh 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TX_San Antonio_12238 Silicon Drive_TX211110 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE East Region Customer Center 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avancez Assembly Hazel Park 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE The JM Smucker Co 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dongwon Autopart Technology Alabama 207 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.