Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying · California

MGE Underground, Inc.

Paso Robles, CA · ~348 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MGE Underground, Inc. runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying workplace, earning a grade B.

MGE Underground, Inc.: 1.6 TCR = 58% of Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MGE Underground, Inc. safety composite

MGE Underground, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

MGE Underground, Inc. held a steady TCR band

MGE Underground, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 1.8 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.8 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Paso Robles, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 58% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #57/147
  • PHOTO Franklin PUD - Office
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~348 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Franklin PUD - Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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MGE Underground, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MGE Underground, Inc. averages 1.6 TCR (58% of the Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS benchmark).

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

MGE Underground, Inc. TCR series: 2017=1.8 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 2.8

Where MGE Underground, Inc. falls in its industry

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 147 Underground cable (e.g., cable employers in California.

MGE Underground, Inc. (348 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 MGE Underground, Inc.
MGE Underground, Inc. (348 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

MGE Underground, Inc. has more employees than the Underground cable (e.g., cable televisio median and a lower 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 1.6 1.6 8 0 0
2023 0.4 0.4 2 0 0
2022 1.6 1.6 5 0 0
2021 2.6 2.1 6 5 0
2017 1.8 1.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · CA · Paso Robles

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 89 employers in Paso Robles, 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 Franklin PUD - Office 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc. T&D 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilson Construction Co. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Service Area 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Roebbelen Contracting Inc 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE Camblin Steel Service, Inc. 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresno Plumbing & Heating Inc. 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE Livingston Deli 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 146 956 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 160 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pearce Services, LLC 677 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1660 Circle B Rd. Paso Robles, CA 93465 516 FTE
NAT-TCR Tcw Inc - Mem 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fayette Janitorial LLC-Creekstone 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield Feed Plant 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brothers Paving & Concrete 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE RM Beverage Delaware 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE It's My Venue 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2322 French Settlement Road 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0000000005 John Heinz Institute of Rehab 348 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, 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.