Long-distance telephone carriers, wired · South Carolina

LN Plant

Lancaster, SC · ~67 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LN Plant runs at 506% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Long-distance telephone carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

LN Plant: 3.5 TCR = 506% of Long-distance telephone carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LN Plant safety composite

LN Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.7

2019→2024

LN Plant injury rate improved

LN Plant's TCR fell 5.7 from 7.2 in 2019 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.2 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Lancaster, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.5 · 506% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO TUSTCA70 - Pacific B…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TUSTCA70 - Pacific Bell Telephone Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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LN Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LN Plant averages 3.5 TCR (506% of the Long-distance telephone carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

LN Plant TCR series: 2019=7.2 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 0.7

Where LN Plant falls in its industry

537 Long-distance telephone carrie establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Long-distance telephone carrie employers in South Carolina.

LN Plant (67 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate LN Plant
LN Plant (67 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

LN Plant has fewer employees than the Long-distance telephone carriers, wired median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.3. 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2022 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2021 4.3 2.9 3 0 0
2020 5.3 1.3 2 2 0
2019 7.2 2.9 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · SC · Lancaster

537 Long-distance telephone carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 51 employers in Lancaster, SC · 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 TUSTCA70 - Pacific Bell Telephone Company 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MTCO Communications 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wave Division Holdings, LLC-Port Orchard 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grande Communicaitons Odessa 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Duncan Operations Center 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oconee 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Gas Crew Quarters 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooper River Partners, LLC 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morningside of Lancaster 1,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster County Government 1,009 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nutramax Laboratories Inc. 592 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nutramax SC1 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Accurate Box Company 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR East Porter County School Corp 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gordon Flesch Company (Geneva) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Versa-Tags, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Malvern 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kimpton Hotel New Orleans 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE CrustBuster, Inc. 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE PD-Denver 67 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.