Telecommunications carriers, wired · Minnesota

Otter Tail Telcom

Underwood, MN · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Otter Tail Telcom runs at 1454% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Otter Tail Telcom: 10.2 TCR = 1454% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Otter Tail Telcom safety composite

Otter Tail Telcom scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Otter Tail Telcom: 7.4 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Otter Tail Telcom's TCR rose 1.0 from 7.4 in 2019 to 8.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Underwood, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 1454% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO RCN Telecom Services…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RCN Telecom Services, LLC-West Chicago (0.2 TCR gap)

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Otter Tail Telcom in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Otter Tail Telcom averages 10.2 TCR (1454% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Otter Tail Telcom TCR series: 2019=7.4 · 2020=14.8 · 2021=8.4 · BLS 0.7

Where Otter Tail Telcom falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Minnesota.

Otter Tail Telcom (28 employees, TCR 10.2) 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 Otter Tail Telcom
Otter Tail Telcom (28 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Otter Tail Telcom has fewer 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 8.4 0.0 2 0 0
2020 14.8 0.0 0 4 0
2019 7.4 7.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · MN · Underwood

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Underwood, MN · 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 RCN Telecom Services, LLC-West Chicago 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARO / PRT - Ponce CO 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wave Division Holdings, LLC-Woodburn 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mediacom Mt. Vernon 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shooting Star Native Seeds 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moore Calves 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2528-Glyndon, MN 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worthington Public Utilities 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISD #550 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop 20 FTE
NAT-TCR EMI Industries RI 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Climate Design 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RJ Kirkland Construction Company, Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Phillips Building Supply, Gulfport 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Detention Center Central 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scottdale 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ravena 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Americhem Sales Company 28 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. 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.