Long-distance telephone carriers, wired · Alaska

Palmer-Wasilla Highway

Wasilla, AK · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.4
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmer-Wasilla Highway runs at 1773% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Long-distance telephone carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Palmer-Wasilla Highway: 12.4 TCR = 1773% of Long-distance telephone carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer-Wasilla Highway safety composite

Palmer-Wasilla Highway scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Palmer-Wasilla Highway: 7.8 → 17.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 17.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2017

Palmer-Wasilla Highway's TCR rose 9.3 from 7.8 in 2016 to 17.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.4 · 1773% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Wave Division Holdin…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wave Division Holdings LLC Woodburn (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmer-Wasilla Highway in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmer-Wasilla Highway averages 12.4 TCR (1773% 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-Wasilla Highway TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=17.1 · BLS 0.7

Where Palmer-Wasilla Highway falls in its industry

537 Long-distance telephone carrie establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #3 safest of 4 Long-distance telephone carrie employers in Alaska.

Palmer-Wasilla Highway (34 employees, TCR 12.4) 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-Wasilla Highway
Palmer-Wasilla Highway (34 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Palmer-Wasilla Highway 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 17.1 5.7 6 0 0
2016 7.8 3.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · AK · Wasilla

537 Long-distance telephone carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 54 employers in Wasilla, 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 Wave Division Holdings LLC Woodburn 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wave Division Holdings, LLC-W.Sac 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gillespie 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARO / PRT - Trujillo Alto CO 13.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ASKWdavis, LLC Mount Edgecumbe Medical Center Campus 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alaska Office CS 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE NPCES 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE PSI North Pole Refinery 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2074 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2074 370 FTE
CITY-NEAR 701-00653 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dept. of Corrections (34) 287 FTE
NAT-TCR WW - Albany CSC 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR W.S. Badcock Corporation / DCFLMU 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Republic National Distributing Company 8 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 8000 Coborn's Delivers 12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glenn E. Sessions & Sons 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haley, Chisholm & Morris, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caliber, Inc 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1034 Southern York Co. School District 34 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.