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

Michels Power- KS

Name: Michels Power- KS Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Topeka, KS · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Michels Power- KS runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade B.

Michels Power- KS: 1.7 TCR = 60% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michels Power- KS safety composite

Michels Power- KS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2017→2020

Michels Power- KS injury rate improved

Michels Power- KS's TCR fell 2.9 from 2.9 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.9 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Topeka, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 60% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #2/10
PHOTO Hyper Networks, LLC
BOOK 4y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hyper Networks, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Michels Power- KS averages 1.7 TCR (60% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

Michels Power- KS TCR series: 2017=2.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Michels Power- KS falls in its industry

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

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Kansas.

Michels Power- KS (27 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Michels Power- KS has fewer employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el 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
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	3.8	3.8	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	2.9	2.9	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · KS · Topeka

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Hyper Networks, LLC	PINEVILLE, NC	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Michigan UCI	WIXOM, MI	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	N&S Construction Buchanan	BUCHANAN, VA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hurley Electrical Contracting LLC	CHAVIES, KY	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Turon Feed Yard	TURON	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NA Timmerman - Colby	COLBY	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tecumseh Energy Center	TECUMSEH	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	GREAT BEND SC	GREAT BEND	27 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Stormont Vail Health - Hospital	Topeka	2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Goodyear Tire Rubber Company	Topeka	1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Goodyear Topeka	Topeka	1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus	Topeka	1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR	Arrow Exterminators Raleigh	Raleigh, NC	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Walnut Street Fresh Grocer	Philadelphia, PA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	WMT	Columbus, OH	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mold Technology Center	Nazareth, PA	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hollandia Farms North	San Jacinto, CA	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Arrow Exterminators Roswell	Roswell, GA	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Arrow Exterminators Midtown	Atlanta, GA	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Roseburg Dillard Powerhouse	Dillard, OR	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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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