wired telecommunication carriers · Ohio

OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300

N. Canton, OH · ~486 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical wired telecommunication carriers workplace, earning a grade D.

OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300: 0.9 TCR = 130% of wired telecommunication carriers BLS 0.7 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 safety composite

OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300: 0.6 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.6 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517111 · N. Canton, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 0.9 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #6/13
  • PHOTO MD - Upper Marlboro,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~486 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MD - Upper Marlboro, 8210 Penn Randall PL Suite C (0.0 TCR gap)

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OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 averages 0.9 TCR (130% of the wired telecommunication carriers BLS benchmark).

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

OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 TCR series: 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 0.7

Where OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 falls in its industry

455 wired telecommunication carrie establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 13 wired telecommunication carrie employers in Ohio.

OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 (486 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 515 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300
OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 (486 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 515 employees and a TCR of 4.0

OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 has fewer employees than the wired telecommunication carriers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 1.3 0.5 5 1 0
2023 0.8 0.6 4 0 0
2022 0.6 0.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517111 · OH · N. Canton

455 wired telecommunication carriers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 5 employers in N. Canton, OH · 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 MD - Upper Marlboro, 8210 Penn Randall PL Suite C 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GridSource 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Springs Telephone Company, Inc 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FTC Sumter Operations 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lima Plant 485 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avita Health System Ontario Location 485 FTE
STATE-SIZE Biery Cheese Company Louisville 484 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAC Worldwide - Middletown OH 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR Giant Eagle #6378 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR Giant Eagle #4060 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2532-25320010 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR 25320010 N. CANTON, OH 90 FTE
NAT-TCR Farason Corporation 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbuckle Rice Mill 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Effingham Feed Warehouse 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar Rapids Dry Mill 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rev-A-Shelf, LLC 486 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nestle Purina PetCare 486 FTE
NAT-SIZE Department of Administration 486 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mission Foods- Mountain Top Plant 486 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.