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

Optimum AZ, INC.

Tucson, AZ · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Optimum AZ, INC. runs at 72% 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.

Optimum AZ, INC.: 2.0 TCR = 72% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Optimum AZ, INC. safety composite

Optimum AZ, INC. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Optimum AZ, INC.: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Optimum AZ, INC.'s TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Tucson, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/47
  • PHOTO SouthWest Texas EC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SouthWest Texas EC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Optimum AZ, INC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Optimum AZ, INC. averages 2.0 TCR (72% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

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

Optimum AZ, INC. TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=4 · BLS 2.8

Where Optimum AZ, INC. falls in its industry

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

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 47 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Arizona.

Optimum AZ, INC. (26 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Optimum AZ, INC.
Optimum AZ, INC. (26 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Optimum AZ, INC. has fewer employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el 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
2021 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · AZ · Tucson

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 1,150 employers in Tucson, AZ · 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 SouthWest Texas EC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JALBEAR BROTHERS POWERLINE CONSTRUCTION 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wireless Horizon Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quanta Telecommunication Solutions, LLC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Marana 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&H Farms, LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snowflake 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yucca 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Arizona 18,951 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Tucson_AZ_Airport Site 9,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tucson Medical Center 4,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Tucson 3,989 FTE
NAT-TCR Showboat Hotel 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 443 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR A.R.E - Mt Eaton, OH 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR A.Schulman West Chicago 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Lancaster 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHEP Lubbock Service Center (USXA) 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 03-14-02 South Div - Carolinas Region 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE LMC Dallas 26 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: 2021, 2020. 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.