wired telecommunication carriers · Kansas

KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600

Overland Park, KS · ~392 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600 runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical wired telecommunication carriers workplace, earning a grade D.

KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600: 1.4 TCR = 193% of wired telecommunication carriers BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600 safety composite

KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600: 0.6 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.6 in 2023 to 2.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517111 · Overland Park, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.4 · 193% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK P72
  • PHOTO FirstLight Fiber - N…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~392 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FirstLight Fiber - Newport (0.0 TCR gap)

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KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600 averages 1.4 TCR (193% of the wired telecommunication carriers BLS benchmark).

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

KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600 TCR series: 2023=0.6 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 0.7

Where KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600 falls in its industry

455 wired telecommunication carrie establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600 (392 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 515 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600
KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600 (392 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 515 employees and a TCR of 4.0

KS_Overland Park_8501 W. 137th Street_KS002600 has fewer employees than the wired telecommunication carriers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 2.2 1.4 9 0 0
2023 0.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517111 · KS · Overland Park

455 wired telecommunication carriers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 273 employers in Overland Park, KS · 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 FirstLight Fiber - Newport 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate Office 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Breezeline - Miramar 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IL - Rolling Meadows, 1575 Rohlwing Rd 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE GTM Sportswear DBA Champion Teamwear 391 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1221 391 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1221 393 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCG Corp-(Co 09/18) 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black & Veatch P-Building 1,934 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black & Veatch - P Building 1,646 FTE
CITY-NEAR EVERSANA Life Science Services - Overland Park, KS 1,604 FTE
CITY-NEAR Overland Park Regional Medical Center 1,371 FTE
NAT-TCR STR0558 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dealership - City of Industry 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR FONA International LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Jerrys Do It Best Hardware Bloomington - 5216 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE EJ - Ardmore Foundry 392 FTE
NAT-SIZE Textron Specialized Vehicles - GSE Cartersville 392 FTE
NAT-SIZE SER Construction Partners, LLC 392 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Clearing Inc. 392 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.