Long-distance telephone carriers, wired · Tennessee

Meriwether Lewis Connect

Centerville, TN · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meriwether Lewis Connect runs at 710% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Long-distance telephone carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Meriwether Lewis Connect: 5.0 TCR = 710% of Long-distance telephone carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meriwether Lewis Connect safety composite

Meriwether Lewis Connect scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

−1.6

2023→2024

Meriwether Lewis Connect injury rate improved

Meriwether Lewis Connect's TCR fell 1.6 from 5.8 in 2023 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.8 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Centerville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 710% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Wave Division Holdin…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wave Division Holdings, LLC-San Francisco (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meriwether Lewis Connect in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meriwether Lewis Connect averages 5.0 TCR (710% 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

Meriwether Lewis Connect TCR series: 2023=5.8 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 0.7

Where Meriwether Lewis Connect falls in its industry

537 Long-distance telephone carrie establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Long-distance telephone carrie employers in Tennessee.

Meriwether Lewis Connect (27 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Meriwether Lewis Connect
Meriwether Lewis Connect (27 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Meriwether Lewis Connect 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 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2023 5.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · TN · Centerville

537 Long-distance telephone carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 9 employers in Centerville, TN · 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 Wave Division Holdings, LLC-San Francisco 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARO / PRT - Utuado CO 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARO / PRT - Bo. Palmas 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant Engineering 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Montgomery County Power Station 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Millwrights & Consultants, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Innovative Millwright Service 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cumberland Valley Constructors, Inc. 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Care Center of Centerville 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TNNAS12 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR TNNAS12 ASCENSION SAINT THOMAS HICKMAN HOSP 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agrana Fruit US, Inc. Centerville 79 FTE
NAT-TCR Amherst 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Round Rock 10532 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Vafro - Front Royal 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Avista Sandpoint 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Veranova - North Andover 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sharp Auto Parts 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springhill Suites Boston Andover 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE MK Electric & Design Inc. 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.

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

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