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

Swick Cable Contractor's Inc.

Ely, IA · ~31 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Swick Cable Contractor's Inc. runs at 348% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.8
industry benchmark (BLS)
20
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Swick Cable Contractor's Inc.'s OSHA Total Case Rate of 9.7 to the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark of 2.8 (348% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Swick Cable Contractor's Inc.'s yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.8 industry benchmark.

05101520 2017201820192020202120222023 16.62.8 Industry benchmarkSwick Cable Contractor's Inc. TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 237130.

Where Swick Cable Contractor's Inc. falls in its industry

1,948 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 21 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Iowa.

Trend analysis for Swick Cable Contractor's Inc.

Between 2017 and 2023, Swick Cable Contractor's Inc.'s Total Case Rate worsened from 3.2 to 16.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 417% increase across 6 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 3.2, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 16.8, a spread of 13.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 7 reporting years, Swick Cable Contractor's Inc. recorded 20 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 20 injuries, 2 illnesses shown on this page for Swick Cable Contractor's Inc. are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 237130 - Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

4 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 60,191 hours worked = 13.29 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Swick Cable Contractor's Inc. (this establishment) 9.73 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg
Substation and switching station, power transmission line, construction industry avg 2.80 BLS IIF, NAICS 237130
Iowa state avg (all industries) 5.33 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Swick Cable Contractor's Inc. to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 16.6 13.3 5 0 0
2022 12.9 12.9 4 0 0
2021 16.8 8.4 5 1 0
2020 9.3 6.2 2 1 0
2019 5.7 2.9 2 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Swick Cable Contractor's Inc.'s reported OSHA injury record versus its Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 348% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground benchmark, Swick Cable Contractor's Inc. reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Swick Cable Contractor's Inc.'s safety grade?
Swick Cable Contractor's Inc. has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 9.7 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.8 for Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground.
How many injuries has Swick Cable Contractor's Inc. reported?
Swick Cable Contractor's Inc. has reported 20 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 7 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.