Telecommunications carriers, wired · Illinois

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL

Chicago, IL · ~131 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL runs at 349% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL: 2.4 TCR = 349% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL safety composite

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL: 2.2 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2020

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.2 in 2018 to 3.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 2.4 · 349% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #15/19
  • PHOTO Grande Communication…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grande Communications Networks, LLC-San Antonio (0.0 TCR gap)

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RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL averages 2.4 TCR (349% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL TCR series: 2018=2.2 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=3.7 · BLS 0.7

Where RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 19 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Illinois.

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL (131 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL
RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL (131 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Chicago IL has fewer employees than the Telecommunications 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
2020 3.7 2.9 5 0 0
2019 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2018 2.2 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · IL · Chicago

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Grande Communications Networks, LLC-San Antonio 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Communications 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AllCom Global Services Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARO / PRT - CAC Plaza Guayama 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Department of Public Works 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE McHugh Enterprises Inc. 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brieser Construction 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alliance Glazing Technologies 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Yanfeng U.S.Automotive Interiors Systems II LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Shadyside Service Center 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fi Companies 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR McDonough 6 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seele, inc. 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitchell Manor 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #17 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeland High School 131 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.