Long-distance telephone carriers, wired · Alaska

Palmer Plant

Palmer, AK · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmer Plant runs at 1173% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Long-distance telephone carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Palmer Plant: 8.2 TCR = 1173% of Long-distance telephone carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Plant safety composite

Palmer Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−3.5

2016→2017

Palmer Plant injury rate improved

Palmer Plant's TCR fell 3.5 from 9.9 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.9 · 2017=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Palmer, AK ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 1173% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO CMTOCAEV
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CMTOCAEV (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmer Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmer Plant averages 8.2 TCR (1173% of the Long-distance telephone carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Palmer Plant TCR series: 2016=9.9 · 2017=6.5 · BLS 0.7

Where Palmer Plant falls in its industry

537 Long-distance telephone carrie establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alaska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Long-distance telephone carrie employers in Alaska.

Palmer Plant (49 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 Palmer Plant
Palmer Plant (49 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Palmer Plant has fewer employees than the Long-distance telephone 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
2017 6.5 2.2 2 1 0
2016 9.9 4.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · AK · Palmer

537 Long-distance telephone carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 64 employers in Palmer, AK · 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 CMTOCAEV 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALLO Fiber Colorado 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NY0517CN4 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bend (63020 Sherman Rd) 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southeast Roadbuilders Construction 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Klebs Mechanical Inc 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dimond 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE 024177-JNU-MENDENHALL STA 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District 2,784 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mat-Su Borough School District 2,660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Matanuska Telecom Association, Inc. 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR 701-00649 269 FTE
NAT-TCR Lehigh Schkl Hvn - Schuylkill Haven - DTI 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Angleton Danbury Medical Cente 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency House 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Knoxville 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE AAA Worldwide Transportation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Elk Rapids 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE AKA Tree Removal 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Mansfield LLC 49 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: 2017, 2016. 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.