Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground · North Dakota

MC Contracting

Grand Forks, ND · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MC Contracting runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade D.

MC Contracting: 3.8 TCR = 136% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MC Contracting safety composite

MC Contracting scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

MC Contracting held a steady TCR band

MC Contracting's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.9 in 2023 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.9 · 2024=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Grand Forks, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 136% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Midwest Energy & Com…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest Energy & Communications (0.0 TCR gap)

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MC Contracting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MC Contracting averages 3.8 TCR (136% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

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

MC Contracting TCR series: 2023=3.9 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 2.8

Where MC Contracting falls in its industry

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in North Dakota.

MC Contracting (27 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 MC Contracting
MC Contracting (27 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

MC Contracting has fewer employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el 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 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2023 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · ND · Grand Forks

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 175 employers in Grand Forks, ND · 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 Midwest Energy & Communications 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR R.J. Carroll Company 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSK02 - Mollala, OR 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Communications 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ovintiv USA Inc. - Williston Operations 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Forks Service Center 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montana Dakota Utilities - Williston, ND(2) 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swanberg Construction, Inc. 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Altru Health System Med Park 2,709 FTE
CITY-NEAR LM Wind Power 907 FTE
CITY-NEAR LM Wind Power : Grand Forks 614 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Eldercare Center 606 FTE
NAT-TCR Frontier Natural Gas 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Design Within Reach 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Second Life Mac 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Barnsco Dallas 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE University of Sioux Falls 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iliad, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hudson Electric, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peachtree Senior Living 27 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.