Telecommunications carriers, wired · Massachusetts

RCN Telecom Services MA, LLC- Canton

Canton, MA · ~38 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RCN Telecom Services MA, LLC- Canton runs at 524% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

RCN Telecom Services MA, LLC- Canton: 3.7 TCR = 524% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RCN Telecom Services MA, LLC- Canton safety composite

RCN Telecom Services MA, LLC- Canton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 MA, LLC- Canton: 2.4 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.45× in 2024

RCN Telecom Services MA, LLC- Canton's TCR rose 6.6 from 2.4 in 2019 to 9.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Canton, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.7 · 524% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Federal
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Federal (0.0 TCR gap)

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RCN Telecom Services MA, LLC- Canton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RCN Telecom Services MA, LLC- Canton averages 3.7 TCR (524% 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 MA, LLC- Canton TCR series: 2019=2.4 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=3 · 2024=9 · BLS 0.7

Where RCN Telecom Services MA, LLC- Canton falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Massachusetts.

RCN Telecom Services MA, LLC- Canton (38 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 MA, LLC- Canton
RCN Telecom Services MA, LLC- Canton (38 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

RCN Telecom Services MA, LLC- Canton 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
2024 9.0 9.0 3 0 0
2023 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2020 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2019 2.4 2.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · MA · Canton

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 98 employers in Canton, MA · 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 Federal 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARO / PRT - CAC Plaza del Caribe 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grande Communicaitons Odessa 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Granite State Communications 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Springfield 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vareika Construction, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE IPS - Integrated Project Services, LLC - Burlington 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE P&S Construction, Inc. 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Point32Health Canton 4,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Organogenesis (Campus: 85, 65, and 150 Dan Rd Canton Locations) 855 FTE
CITY-NEAR Organogenesis (Campus: 85, 65, and 150 Dan Rd Canton Location's) 631 FTE
CITY-NEAR E.M. Duggan, Inc. 432 FTE
NAT-TCR 8010516 P and G Iowa City 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Norman Medical Center - EVS 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR John Deere Regional Distribution Center - Lathrop 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fargo Insulation Co., Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE ICB 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE ISSC INC DBA SEAPORT STEEL - Vancouver 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE 30644 - Capstone Frito Lay La Vista NE 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE RCN Telecom Services, LLC-Havertown 38 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.