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

Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC

Chattanooga, TN · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC runs at 238% 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.

Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC: 6.7 TCR = 238% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC safety composite

Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC: 2.8 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC's TCR rose 7.8 from 2.8 in 2022 to 10.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 238% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #24/26
  • PHOTO NA-US-PA-Lancaster-G…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NA-US-PA-Lancaster-Gateway Business Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC averages 6.7 TCR (238% 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

Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC TCR series: 2022=2.8 · 2023=10.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC falls in its industry

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

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 26 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Tennessee.

Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC (61 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC
Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC (61 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC has fewer employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el 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
2023 10.6 0.0 4 0 1
2022 2.8 2.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · TN · Chattanooga

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, TN · 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 NA-US-PA-Lancaster-Gateway Business Center 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-CT-Milford-Cascade Boulevard 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 507 Forest Ave., Carnegie, PA 15106 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 425 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CORPORATE OFFICE 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOB 230B 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blount County Highway Dept 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bluff City Electrical Contractors, LLC 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Osypka Medtec Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Thermo King Quad Cities Inc 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kimball Health Services 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR DEBSTEEL, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oceana Commissary Retail Grocery 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food 4 Less - Rancho Cordova 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bon Appetit Danish Inc 4700 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heartland Midwest 61 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.