Telecommunications carriers, wired · Michigan

Upper Peninsula Telephone Company

Carney, MI · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Upper Peninsula Telephone Company runs at 754% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Upper Peninsula Telephone Company: 5.3 TCR = 754% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Upper Peninsula Telephone Company safety composite

Upper Peninsula Telephone Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Upper Peninsula Telephone Company: 3.3 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2020

Upper Peninsula Telephone Company's TCR rose 2.8 from 3.3 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Carney, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.3 · 754% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO CLARO / PRT - CAC Ar…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CLARO / PRT - CAC Arecibo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Upper Peninsula Telephone Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Upper Peninsula Telephone Company averages 5.3 TCR (754% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Upper Peninsula Telephone Company TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=9.7 · 2020=6.1 · BLS 0.7

Where Upper Peninsula Telephone Company falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Michigan.

Upper Peninsula Telephone Company (31 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Upper Peninsula Telephone Company
Upper Peninsula Telephone Company (31 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Upper Peninsula Telephone Company has fewer employees than the Telecommunications 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
2020 6.1 3.1 2 0 0
2019 9.7 0.0 1 2 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 7.3 3.7 2 0 0
2016 3.3 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · MI · Carney

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 3 employers in Carney, 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 CLARO / PRT - CAC Arecibo 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CRSNCA02 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anniston 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grande Communicaitons San Antonio 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Greenhouse, Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Production 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.B. Satkowiak's City Sewer Cleaners 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Melching Inc. 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Cedar Products, Inc. 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Pallet Corp. - Carney 49 FTE
NAT-TCR Contact Cartage Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nw Houston, Tx 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Patuxent River Health and Rehabilitation Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blakely Plant 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baldwin Lighting, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 166 Quickchek Food Store 166 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0000000159 Quickchek Food Store 159 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Little's of Zieglerville 31 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: 2020, 2019, 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.