Telecommunications carriers, wired · Texas

Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc.

Name: Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Vernon, TX · ~56 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 0.7
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc. runs at 403% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc.: 2.8 TCR = 403% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc. safety composite

Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 2.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers
DART rate: F 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.0

2016→2018

Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc. injury rate improved

Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc.'s TCR fell 2.0 from 3.8 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.8 · 2018=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Vernon, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 2.8 · 403% of ind

DART 1.8 DART
RANK #52/61
PHOTO Grande Communication…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grande Communications Austin (0.0 TCR gap)

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CLARO / PRT -

2.9
This site

2.8
Grande Communi

2.8
Wave Division

2.8
FM Hwy 160 Off

2.7

What this shows Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc. averages 2.8 TCR (403% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2018=1.8 · BLS 0.7

Where Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc. falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 61 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Texas.

Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc. (56 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative Inc. 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
2018	1.8	1.8	1	0	0
2016	3.8	3.8	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · TX · Vernon

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 16 employers in Vernon, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Grande Communications Austin	AUSTIN, TX	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Wave Division Holdings, LLC-Port Angeles	PORT ANGELES, WA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FM Hwy 160 Office	FORT MILL, SC	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CLARO / PRT - Centro Operaciones Guaynabo Esmeralda	GUAYNABO, PR	2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Native Texas Nursery	AUSTIN	56 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dalhart Cattle Feeders	DALHART	56 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Oasis Gin, Inc	SEMINOLE	56 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Comyn GP Shelling Plant	DE LEON	56 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Vernon Plant	Vernon	853 FTE
CITY-NEAR	3229	Vernon	176 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 3229	Vernon	175 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Advanced Rehabilitation and Healthcare of Vernon	Vernon	118 FTE
NAT-TCR	McPherson T & M	Mcpherson, KS	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Albert Lea (Mnalb)	Albert Lea, MN	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lincoln (Nelin)	Lincoln, NE	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Evergreen Place - Orland Park	Orland Park, IL	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Southern Specialty Service	Star City, AK	56 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Watson Refrigeration, Inc	Raleigh, NC	56 FTE
NAT-SIZE	7100501 - ALT Olympus Alexandria	Alexandria, VA	56 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Holland - OW	Owatonna, MN	56 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.