Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction · Texas

Underground Services

Grand Prairie, TX · ~92 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Underground Services runs at 296% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Underground Services: 8.3 TCR = 296% of Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Underground Services safety composite

Underground Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 Services: 7.6 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2018

Underground Services's TCR rose 3.9 from 7.6 in 2016 to 11.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Grand Prairie, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 296% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #146/161
  • PHOTO Graycliff Enterprises
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Graycliff Enterprises (0.0 TCR gap)

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Underground Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Underground Services averages 8.3 TCR (296% of the Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction BLS benchmark).

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

Underground Services TCR series: 2016=7.6 · 2017=5.8 · 2018=11.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Underground Services falls in its industry

1,605 Utility line (i.e., communicat establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #146 safest of 161 Utility line (i.e., communicat employers in Texas.

Underground Services (92 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Services
Underground Services (92 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Underground Services has more employees than the Utility line (i.e., communication, elect 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
2018 11.5 6.5 11 3 0
2017 5.8 3.3 5 2 0
2016 7.6 5.5 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · TX · Grand Prairie

1,605 Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 405 employers in Grand Prairie, TX · 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 Graycliff Enterprises 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smith Denison Construction Company 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washington Branch 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mililani, HI Office CS 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pecos 341 CR 402, Pecos, TX 79772 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden Spread Center 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ft Worth Transmission 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Maintenance 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Grand Prairie Campus (1435) 3,544 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poly-America, L.P. 2,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poly America 2,318 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inmar - 4355 Grand Prairie, TX 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Poff Carting Services LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 8350 Lyra Drive,LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Androscoggin Learning & Transition Center 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR PPOSBC- Anaheim 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4795-PD-SDF-LOUISVILLE-PD 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Health - Mendota 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Haven HQ 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Health - Beardstown 92 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.