Excavation contractors · North Carolina

STS Cable Services Inc

Charlotte, NC · ~68 workers · 5 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

STS Cable Services Inc runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

STS Cable Services Inc: 3.0 TCR = 106% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

STS Cable Services Inc safety composite

STS Cable Services Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

STS Cable Services Inc: 2.2 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

STS Cable Services Inc's TCR rose 1.4 from 2.2 in 2017 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 106% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #52/76
  • PHOTO Honeycutt Constructi…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Honeycutt Construction - Wilmington (0.0 TCR gap)

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STS Cable Services Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows STS Cable Services Inc averages 3.0 TCR (106% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

STS Cable Services Inc TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2018=6 · 2019=2 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 2.8

Where STS Cable Services Inc falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 76 Excavation contractors employers in North Carolina.

STS Cable Services Inc (68 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate STS Cable Services Inc
STS Cable Services Inc (68 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

STS Cable Services Inc has more employees than the Excavation contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 3.6 0.0 4 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2019 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2018 6.0 2.0 3 0 0
2017 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · NC · Charlotte

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 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 Honeycutt Construction - Wilmington 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Paving 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR M.L. Albright & Sons, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Star Excavating 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pittsboro 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asheville Skyland Fossil and CT Plants 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rehab Builders, Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE KRG Utility, Inc 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Mark Young Construction 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR All Pro Fasteners Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin General Contracting 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Worthington Steel Delta 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Assisted Living Facility 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE AGP Aberdeen Soy 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowrie Electric Company, Inc. 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cypress 68 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.