Telecommunications · Kentucky

STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY

Lexington, KY · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY runs at 368% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade F.

STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY: 10.3 TCR = 368% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY safety composite

STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.9

2018→2020

STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY injury rate improved

STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY's TCR fell 9.9 from 13.4 in 2018 to 3.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=13.4 · 2019=14.1 · 2020=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 368% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #19/20
  • PHOTO Fort Worth/183
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fort Worth/183 (0.0 TCR gap)

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STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY averages 10.3 TCR (368% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

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

STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY TCR series: 2018=13.4 · 2019=14.1 · 2020=3.5 · BLS 2.8

Where STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY falls in its industry

1,605 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 20 Telecommunications employers in Kentucky.

STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY (40 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY
STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY (40 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY has fewer employees than the Telecommunications 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
2020 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2019 14.1 14.1 7 0 0
2018 13.4 9.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · KY · Lexington

1,605 Telecommunications employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, KY · 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 Fort Worth/183 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-DE-Seaford-Ventura Drive 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nushagak Electric & Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 416 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Electrical Distribution Cooperative 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leak Eliminators 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE STC:SC630 - SC630-Louisville, KY 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harper Construction 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR Marinemax East, Inc.-Loz 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Moldtech, Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wm-Hhh1-Spring Arbor Williamsburg 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR FireDEX of Pittsburgh 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE PTI:PT610 - PT610-Pleasantville, NJ Core 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Signature Flight Support Grand Rapids 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE R & J Dayton 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Al38-338-the Homestead at Montrose 40 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.