Cellular phone tower construction · Pennsylvania

Jacobs Telecommunications

Conshohocken, PA · ~372 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Jacobs Telecommunications runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cellular phone tower construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Jacobs Telecommunications: 0.5 TCR = 19% of Cellular phone tower construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jacobs Telecommunications safety composite

Jacobs Telecommunications scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

Jacobs Telecommunications: 0.3 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Jacobs Telecommunications's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.3 in 2022 to 0.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Conshohocken, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/54
  • PHOTO ITC Operations-219
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~372 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ITC Operations-219 (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Pennsylvania employers → · Look up another →

Jacobs Telecommunications in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jacobs Telecommunications averages 0.5 TCR (19% 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

Jacobs Telecommunications TCR series: 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Jacobs Telecommunications falls in its industry

1,605 Cellular phone tower construct establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 54 Cellular phone tower construct employers in Pennsylvania.

Jacobs Telecommunications (372 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 Jacobs Telecommunications
Jacobs Telecommunications (372 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Jacobs Telecommunications has more employees than the Cellular phone tower construction median and a lower 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
2023 0.8 0.0 3 0 0
2022 0.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · PA · Conshohocken

1,605 Cellular phone tower construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 63 employers in Conshohocken, PA · 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 ITC Operations-219 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bellingham_Potelco 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Substation_Potelco 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Li-Cycle 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Three Mile Island Nucler Power Station 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE BEAVER PA 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2597 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3738 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4016-80718107 7,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IKEA US Service Office 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miller Bros 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sharp Conshohocken 419 FTE
NAT-TCR Sterling Foods 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shintech - Freeport, inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR EVVLIN95 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Calvey Incorporated 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Western Bagel Baking Corp 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE Super ATV 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE Police - Uniforms Operation 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnsonville - Meadowside Plant 372 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: 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.