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

Precision Underground Inc

Bismarck, ND · ~28 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Precision Underground Inc runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade C.

Precision Underground Inc: 3.0 TCR = 108% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Precision Underground Inc safety composite

Precision Underground Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Precision Underground Inc: 0.0 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.91× in 2023

Precision Underground Inc's TCR rose 5.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Bismarck, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 108% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Electric Division
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Electric Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Precision Underground Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Precision Underground Inc averages 3.0 TCR (108% 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

Precision Underground Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=12.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=6 · 2023=5.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Precision Underground Inc falls in its industry

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

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in North Dakota.

Precision Underground Inc (28 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Precision Underground Inc
Precision Underground Inc (28 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Precision Underground 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
2023 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2022 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 12.3 12.3 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · ND · Bismarck

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 188 employers in Bismarck, ND · 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 Electric Division 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utility Traffic & Restoration, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 900 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FairWind, Inc. 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Capex Oilfield Services Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE DC POWER TONG LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Forks Service Center-BB 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Bismarck-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,BISMARCK - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 1,715 FTE
CITY-NEAR 33180001-331801 ST ALEXIUS MEDICAL CENTER DBA CHI ST ALE 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bobcat Doosan Bismarck 1,206 FTE
NAT-TCR Williams Systems LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Environmental Systems Service, Ltd. (Culpeper, VA) 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR D.P. Wolff, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington Ch 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 21 - Charleston 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springfield Printing Corp. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vanderwall Brothers 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross Transportation Services, Inc. 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: 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.