Locating underground utility lines prior to digging · Montana

Summit Utility Services, LLC

Arlee, MT · ~194 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Summit Utility Services, LLC runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Locating underground utility lines prior to digging workplace, earning a grade C.

Summit Utility Services, LLC: 2.9 TCR = 110% of Locating underground utility lines prior to digging BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summit Utility Services, LLC safety composite

Summit Utility Services, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

Summit Utility Services, LLC: 1.1 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.57× in 2024

Summit Utility Services, LLC's TCR rose 5.6 from 1.1 in 2021 to 6.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561990 · Arlee, MT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 110% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Advanced Traffic Con…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~194 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Traffic Control (0.0 TCR gap)

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Summit Utility Services, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Summit Utility Services, LLC averages 2.9 TCR (110% of the Locating underground utility lines prior to digging BLS benchmark).

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

Summit Utility Services, LLC TCR series: 2021=1.1 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Summit Utility Services, LLC falls in its industry

208 Locating underground utility l establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Locating underground utility l employers in Montana.

Summit Utility Services, LLC (194 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Summit Utility Services, LLC
Summit Utility Services, LLC (194 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Summit Utility Services, LLC has more employees than the Locating underground utility lines prior median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 6.8 4.5 11 1 1
2023 2.1 2.1 3 0 0
2022 1.5 0.0 2 0 0
2021 1.1 1.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561990 · MT · Arlee

208 Locating underground utility lines prior to digging employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 3 employers in Arlee, MT · 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 Advanced Traffic Control 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR JJ Kane-Riverside 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Area Traffic Solutions 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawrence Service LLC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MTK04 - Applied Materials, Semi Tool 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Us Foods Billings 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Village Health & Rehabilitation 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE SODEXO AT BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Designs For Health - Montana 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Designs For Health - Arlee MT 92 FTE
NAT-TCR Packrite 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR For Bare Feet Stores LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Emma B. Howe Northtown Family YMCA - Coon Rapids 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR JACKSON 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE S & S Transport Inc 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Verano NJ CPG 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DUT3 194 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. 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.