Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground · South Carolina

Sumter Utilities, Inc.

Sumter, SC · ~1,370 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sumter Utilities, Inc. runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade A.

Sumter Utilities, Inc.: 1.1 TCR = 39% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sumter Utilities, Inc. safety composite

Sumter Utilities, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 52%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−0.5

2019→2021

Sumter Utilities, Inc. injury rate improved

Sumter Utilities, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.5 from 1.3 in 2019 to 0.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.3 · 2021=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Sumter, SC AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #4/16
  • PHOTO Panhandle Power Solu…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~1,370 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Panhandle Power Solutions LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sumter Utilities, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sumter Utilities, Inc. averages 1.1 TCR (39% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

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

Sumter Utilities, Inc. TCR series: 2019=1.3 · 2021=0.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Sumter Utilities, Inc. falls in its industry

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 16 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in South Carolina.

Sumter Utilities, Inc. (1,370 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sumter Utilities, Inc.
Sumter Utilities, Inc. (1,370 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Sumter Utilities, Inc. has more employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el median and a lower 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
2021 0.8 0.4 12 0 0
2019 1.3 1.0 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · SC · Sumter

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 130 employers in Sumter, SC · 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 Panhandle Power Solutions LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR R.R. Cassidy, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ERS Tower, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR FiberPlus Federal Services, Inc. 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Medical Grouop of the Carolinas 1,360 FTE
STATE-SIZE McLeod Physician Associates II 1,386 FTE
STATE-SIZE Continental Tire the Americas LLC - Sumter Plant 1,350 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions 1,348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thompson Construction Group 2,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Tuomey 1,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Tire 1,232 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Sumter 908 FTE
NAT-TCR Balazs Dallas 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Scientific EMC - Chandler 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Milwaukee Riverfront 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR LSI Solultions, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 020 Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford 1,370 FTE
NAT-SIZE EHP-Court St 1,370 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon Transportation Services : BOS5 1,370 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bristol Hospital 1,370 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: 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.