Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground · Illinois

prairie telecom services inc

Springfield, IL · ~27 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

prairie telecom services inc runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade D.

prairie telecom services inc: 4.7 TCR = 168% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

prairie telecom services inc safety composite

prairie telecom services inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

prairie telecom services inc: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2022

prairie telecom services inc's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Springfield, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 168% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #44/50
  • PHOTO 429
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 429 (0.0 TCR gap)

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prairie telecom services inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows prairie telecom services inc averages 4.7 TCR (168% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

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

prairie telecom services inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.9 · 2022=6 · BLS 2.8

Where prairie telecom services inc falls in its industry

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 50 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Illinois.

prairie telecom services inc (27 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate prairie telecom services inc
prairie telecom services inc (27 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

prairie telecom services inc has fewer employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2022 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2020 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 13.9 4.7 3 0 0
2017 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · IL · Springfield

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 311 employers in Springfield, IL · 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 429 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NFS:NFYUM - NFYUM- Yuma, AZ 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Underground Contractor 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pizzo Native Plant Nursery, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE C070 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-R&D 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloomington 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center 4,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Memorial Hospital 3,837 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Clinic, LLP 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. John's Hospital 2,696 FTE
NAT-TCR 6458-ZEGL 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZBMN 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR PHS - Presbyterian Homes of Bloomington 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fountains at Canterbury 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sand Ranch 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Oak Day Services Center 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1584 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE MFH Sheet Metal Fabricators Corp 27 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: 2022, 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.