Long-distance telephone carriers, wired · Kentucky

Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc.

Hindman, KY · ~86 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. runs at 917% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Long-distance telephone carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc.: 6.4 TCR = 917% of Long-distance telephone carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. safety composite

Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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)
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc.: 9.8 → 10.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2024

Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 9.8 in 2016 to 10.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Hindman, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 917% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Chanhassen MN Site
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chanhassen MN Site (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. averages 6.4 TCR (917% of the Long-distance telephone carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. TCR series: 2016=9.8 · 2017=10 · 2018=9.6 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=2 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 0.7

Where Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. falls in its industry

537 Long-distance telephone carrie establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Long-distance telephone carrie employers in Kentucky.

Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. (86 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc.
Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. (86 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Long-distance telephone carriers, wired median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.3. 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 10.5 1.2 9 0 0
2023 7.9 4.5 7 0 0
2022 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2021 2.0 0.0 2 0 0
2020 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2019 4.6 1.6 1 2 0
2018 9.6 0.0 6 1 0
2017 10.0 2.9 7 0 0
2016 9.8 0.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · KY · Hindman

537 Long-distance telephone carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 13 employers in Hindman, KY · 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 Chanhassen MN Site 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Aguadilla 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARO / PRT - CAC Mayaguez 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARO / PRT - San German CO 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fox Enterprises, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Farms Dairy Manufacturing 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kentucky QCC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sky Unlimited Inc 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR double kwik Hindman 2 673 FTE
CITY-NEAR double kwik Hindman 1 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knott County Health and Rehabilitation Center 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knott County Health & Rehabilitation Center 114 FTE
NAT-TCR Ohio DC2 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterford High School 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR East Coast Insulators 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Enlight Group II LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Palmetto Services, LLC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Francis J Palo, Inc 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bigbee Steel 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm and Fleet of Traverse City 86 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.