Fiber optic cable transmission line construction · Michigan

Underground Contractors, Inc.

Wixom, MI · ~134 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Underground Contractors, Inc. runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fiber optic cable transmission line construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Underground Contractors, Inc.: 1.5 TCR = 53% of Fiber optic cable transmission line construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Underground Contractors, Inc. safety composite

Underground Contractors, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Underground Contractors, Inc.: 0.7 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Underground Contractors, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.5 from 0.7 in 2023 to 2.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Wixom, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #31/54
  • PHOTO Cougar Construction …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cougar Construction Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Underground Contractors, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Underground Contractors, Inc. averages 1.5 TCR (53% of the Fiber optic cable transmission line construction BLS benchmark).

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

Underground Contractors, Inc. TCR series: 2023=0.7 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Underground Contractors, Inc. falls in its industry

1,605 Fiber optic cable transmission establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 54 Fiber optic cable transmission employers in Michigan.

Underground Contractors, Inc. (134 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Underground Contractors, Inc.
Underground Contractors, Inc. (134 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Underground Contractors, Inc. has more employees than the Fiber optic cable transmission line cons 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
2024 2.2 0.7 3 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · MI · Wixom

1,605 Fiber optic cable transmission line construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 116 employers in Wixom, MI · 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 Cougar Construction Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3 Phase Line Construction, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Novinium, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nebraska Public Power - Gerald Gentleman 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE JRUSA-Schoolcraft 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE K056-M001 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Production 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastatech Engineering, Ltd 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carl Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Material Handling 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gas Construction Southeast 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wixom Trijicon 328 FTE
NAT-TCR Continental Electric Company 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt (Love Box) LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR FabOhio Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Koch Fertilizer Dodge City 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Envases Commerce, LLC 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chemical Products Corporation 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metropolitan Industries 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerrity's Supermarkets, Bethlehem 134 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.