Telecommunications carriers, wired · California

Orange County

Foothill Ranch, CA · ~487 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Orange County runs at 423% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Orange County: 3.0 TCR = 423% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Orange County safety composite

Orange County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−2.8

2018→2021

Orange County injury rate improved

Orange County's TCR fell 2.8 from 5.0 in 2018 to 2.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.0 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Foothill Ranch, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 3.0 · 423% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #21/39
  • PHOTO Eagle Communications…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~487 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eagle Communications Broadband (0.0 TCR gap)

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Orange County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Orange County averages 3.0 TCR (423% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Orange County TCR series: 2018=5 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=2.2 · BLS 0.7

Where Orange County falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 39 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in California.

Orange County (487 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Orange County
Orange County (487 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Orange County has more employees than the Telecommunications carriers, wired median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.3. 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 2.2 1.9 9 1 0
2020 2.3 2.3 10 1 0
2019 2.4 2.0 10 1 0
2018 5.0 2.9 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · CA · Foothill Ranch

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 29 employers in Foothill Ranch, 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 Eagle Communications Broadband 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wave Division Holdings LLC Bothell 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Segra Home Quarters 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coty Professional 487 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aerospace : Irvine FSD 487 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kingsburg Apple Packers, Inc. 487 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1660 487 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakley FHR 1,698 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakley 1,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2218 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2218 356 FTE
NAT-TCR Betenbough Homes - Lubbock West 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Palace at coral Gables 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DHMS - Corpus Christi 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 857 Evans, CO 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ben E Keith Foods 487 FTE
NAT-SIZE AAON Coil Products Inc. 487 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4186-DC5 487 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Campus 487 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, 2019, 2018. 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.