Cellular phone tower construction · Pennsylvania

STS Communications INC

Souderton, PA · ~34 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

STS Communications INC runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cellular phone tower construction workplace, earning a grade B.

STS Communications INC: 2.2 TCR = 77% of Cellular phone tower construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

STS Communications INC safety composite

STS Communications INC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

STS Communications INC held a steady TCR band

STS Communications INC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Souderton, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 77% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #29/54
  • PHOTO Pike Virginia Statew…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pike Virginia Statewide Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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STS Communications INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows STS Communications INC averages 2.2 TCR (77% of the Cellular phone tower construction BLS benchmark).

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

STS Communications INC TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where STS Communications INC falls in its industry

1,605 Cellular phone tower construct establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 54 Cellular phone tower construct employers in Pennsylvania.

STS Communications INC (34 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 STS Communications INC
STS Communications INC (34 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

STS Communications INC has fewer employees than the Cellular phone tower construction 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.8 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 9.2 0.0 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · PA · Souderton

1,605 Cellular phone tower construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 69 employers in Souderton, PA · 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 Pike Virginia Statewide Operations 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR C & C Directional Boring, LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Altitude Energy, LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WYCO Field Services 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Didden Greenhouse 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Dairy 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.W. Sauder Inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS Souderton INC 1,402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Almac Clinical Services LLC 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Almac Clinical Technologies LLC 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leidy's Inc. 297 FTE
NAT-TCR Irving Tissue 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Molson Coors Beverage Company 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Hca Valley Regional 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bear Precision Coatings 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Retreat at Easley 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seattle Tree Care 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kelso Peterbilt, Inc 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Integrity Construction Group, Inc 34 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.

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