Cellular phone tower construction · Illinois

Midwest Underground Technology, Inc.

Name: Midwest Underground Technology, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Champaign, IL · ~300 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.3
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Midwest Underground Technology, Inc. runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cellular phone tower construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Midwest Underground Technology, Inc.: 5.3 TCR = 188% of Cellular phone tower construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Underground Technology, Inc. safety composite

Midwest Underground Technology, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Midwest Underground Technology, Inc.: 3.4 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2018

Midwest Underground Technology, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.7 from 3.4 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Champaign, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 188% of ind

DART 5.0 DART
RANK #45/50
PHOTO NFS:NFSG1 - NFSG1-St…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 31 inj
SIZE ~300 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NFS:NFSG1 - NFSG1-St George Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Midwest Underground Technology, Inc. averages 5.3 TCR (188% of the Cellular phone tower construction BLS benchmark).

Midwest Underground Technology, Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2018=7.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Midwest Underground Technology, Inc. falls in its industry

1,605 Cellular phone tower construct establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 50 Cellular phone tower construct employers in Illinois.

Midwest Underground Technology, Inc. (300 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Midwest Underground Technology, Inc. has more employees than the Cellular phone tower construction 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
2018	7.1	5.0	20	4	0
2016	3.4	2.3	11	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · IL · Champaign

1,605 Cellular phone tower construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 200 employers in Champaign, IL · 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	NFS:NFSG1 - NFSG1-St George Office	WASHINGTON, UT	5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CableSouth Construction, LLC	MILAN, TN	5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ANAUG - Augusta- GA	MARTINEZ, GA	5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	TCC-Milwaukee	MILWAUKEE, WI	5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	RG Construction Servcies Inc.	ELMHURST	300 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Talerico Martin 7224	SUMMIT	300 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Headquarters	CHICAGO	300 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SK5	SOUTH HOLLAND	300 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6458-CHAM	Champaign	1,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kraft Heinz Company	Champaign	1,088 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kraft Heinz Champaign	Champaign	918 FTE
CITY-NEAR	College Fresh	Champaign	840 FTE
NAT-TCR	Aqua Ohio, Inc. - Mentor	Mentor, OH	5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	02-PROVIDENCE	Pawtucket, RI	5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bridge at Greeley	Greeley, CO	5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	55-Syracuse Terminal	E Syracuse, NY	5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	USDA/ARS/WRRC	Albany, CA	300 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Certech: Wood-Ridge, NJ	Wood-Ridge, NJ	300 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kate Spade Corporate NJ	N. Bergen, NJ	300 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Westwood Hills Nursing & Rehab	Wilkesboro, NC	300 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: 2018, 2016. 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.