Fire alarm system, electric, installation only · Kansas

Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc

Wichita, KS · ~50 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality

The verdict

Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fire alarm system, electric, installation only workplace, earning a grade D.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.8
industry benchmark (BLS)
1
worker fatalities on record

Grade compares Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 9 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.8 industry benchmark.

-5051015 201620172018201920202021202220232024 7.52.8 Industry benchmarkPhillips Southern Electric Co., Inc TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 238210.

Where Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc falls in its industry

5,345 Fire alarm system, electric, i establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 43 Fire alarm system, electric, i employers in Kansas.

Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc has an average TCR of 3.6, which is 128% of the industry average (2.8) for Fire alarm system, electric, installation only. This is worse than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc

Between 2016 and 2024, Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc's Total Case Rate worsened from 3.8 to 7.5 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 96% increase across 8 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 10.7, a spread of 10.7 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 9 reporting years, Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc recorded 19 total injuries and illnesses and 1 fatality. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 9-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 238210 - Fire alarm system, electric, installation only.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

5 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 160,198 hours worked = 6.24 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc (this establishment) 3.59 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg
Electrical contractors industry avg 2.80 BLS IIF, NAICS 238210
Kansas state avg (all industries) 4.51 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 7.5 6.2 6 0 1
2023 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 4.5 4.5 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.7 8.9 6 0 0
2019 4.4 4.4 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.8 3.8 1 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc's reported OSHA injury record versus its Fire alarm system, electric, installation only peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 128% of the Fire alarm system, electric, installation only benchmark, Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Fire alarm system, electric, installation only sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc's safety grade?
Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.6 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.8 for Fire alarm system, electric, installation only.
How many injuries has Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc reported?
Phillips Southern Electric Co., Inc has reported 19 total injuries and 1 fatalities across 9 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.