Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors · California

LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc.

Hawthorne, CA · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc. runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc.: 5.5 TCR = 195% of Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc. safety composite

LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc.: 3.9 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2019

LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.2 from 3.9 in 2018 to 7.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Hawthorne, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 195% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #405/548
  • PHOTO FiCom Group
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FiCom Group (0.0 TCR gap)

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LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc. averages 5.5 TCR (195% of the Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc. TCR series: 2018=3.9 · 2019=7 · BLS 2.8

Where LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc. falls in its industry

4,550 Telecommunications equipment a establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #405 safest of 548 Telecommunications equipment a employers in California.

LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc.
LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

LightWerks Communication Systems, Inc. has fewer employees than the Telecommunications equipment and wiring median and a higher 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
2019 7.0 7.0 3 1 0
2018 3.9 3.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · CA · Hawthorne

4,550 Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 78 employers in Hawthorne, CA · 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 FiCom Group 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresno 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4534_9880 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR K&F Electric - OWRF Expansion Phase II 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schreiner Farms 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE FIVE POINTS T.I.C. 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE OFFICE 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brocchini Farms Inc. 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hawthorne, CA 7,104 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Bay Workforce Investment Board, Inc. 4,618 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 206 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DLA8 2,331 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Petersburg Hilton Bayfront 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 305CTR 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0017 1706 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Kona 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Visiting Nurse Association 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palmetto Health Richland - Kershaw Lab 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE JI&M AutoShred of Louisiana 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bayside Marketplace 32 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.