Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying · Colorado

L & M Underground, Inc.

Littleton, CO · ~17 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L & M Underground, Inc. runs at 248% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying workplace, earning a grade F.

L & M Underground, Inc.: 7.0 TCR = 248% of Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L & M Underground, Inc. safety composite

L & M Underground, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

L & M Underground, Inc.: 5.5 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 24.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

L & M Underground, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.5 from 5.5 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 24.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Littleton, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 248% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #56/65
  • PHOTO AM Communications WV
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AM Communications WV (0.0 TCR gap)

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L & M Underground, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L & M Underground, Inc. averages 7.0 TCR (248% of the Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS benchmark).

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

L & M Underground, Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=10 · 2022=0 · 2023=24.1 · 2024=6 · BLS 2.8

Where L & M Underground, Inc. falls in its industry

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 65 Underground cable (e.g., cable employers in Colorado.

L & M Underground, Inc. (17 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 L & M Underground, Inc.
L & M Underground, Inc. (17 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

L & M Underground, Inc. has fewer employees than the Underground cable (e.g., cable televisio median and a higher 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
2024 6.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 24.1 0.0 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 10.0 5.0 2 0 0
2020 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · CO · Littleton

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 238 employers in Littleton, CO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR AM Communications WV 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPA:SP001 - SP001-Tjader-New Richmond, WI 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rylie Equipment & Contracting 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ground Support Group 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Platteville Dairy 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Intermountain Rural Electric Association-Woodland Park 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Isabel Electric Association- Bear Creek 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE DSP Builders, Inc. 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Waterton Campus (1004) 5,542 FTE
CITY-NEAR Littleton Adventist Hospital 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CO Littleton Deer Crk Cnyn (1003) 1,335 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Littleton 1,174 FTE
NAT-TCR Agriland NURSERY, INC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MKR Fabrication LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parksite 108 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Horizon - Raleigh 7.0 TCR

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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.