Fiber optic cable transmission line construction · Colorado

Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC

Hotchkiss, CO · ~105 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fiber optic cable transmission line construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC: 5.4 TCR = 191% of Fiber optic cable transmission line construction BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC safety composite

Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC: 2.4 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC's TCR rose 8.4 from 2.4 in 2017 to 10.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Hotchkiss, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 191% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #47/65
  • PHOTO Custom Crews Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Custom Crews Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC averages 5.4 TCR (191% of the Fiber optic cable transmission line construction BLS benchmark).

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

Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC falls in its industry

1,605 Fiber optic cable transmission establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #47 safest of 65 Fiber optic cable transmission employers in Colorado.

Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC (105 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC
Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC (105 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC has more employees than the Fiber optic cable transmission line cons 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 10.8 4.1 8 0 0
2023 5.5 3.1 7 0 0
2022 2.7 1.8 3 0 0
2017 2.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · CO · Hotchkiss

1,605 Fiber optic cable transmission line construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 4 employers in Hotchkiss, CO · 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 Custom Crews Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Pacific Telecom, LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Organizaiton 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AES Huntington Beach 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Claystone Construction Inc 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Troy Forming Concrete Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Photon Brothers Inc 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield, MA/Hartford/New Haven, CT HVAC 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR 620-00429 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR VM West, LP 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vegetation Management West, LP 33 FTE
NAT-TCR The Waters of Smyrna, LLC 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Village Assisted Living 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascade Plating & Machine, LLC 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Greensboro-Department of Transportation (GDOT) 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Magnetech Industrial Services, Inc. 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE 04 - Orrville 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swarovski Optik North America 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Master Craft Carpet Service 105 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.