Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying · Michigan

Utility Contracting Company

Sparta, MI · ~111 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Utility Contracting Company runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying workplace, earning a grade D.

Utility Contracting Company: 5.0 TCR = 177% of Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Utility Contracting Company safety composite

Utility Contracting Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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 4.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.2

2020→2024

Utility Contracting Company injury rate improved

Utility Contracting Company's TCR fell 3.2 from 7.5 in 2020 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.5 · 2021=3.0 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Sparta, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 177% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #53/54
  • PHOTO Western Construction…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Western Construction of Kansas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Utility Contracting Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Utility Contracting Company averages 5.0 TCR (177% of the Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS benchmark).

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

Utility Contracting Company TCR series: 2020=7.5 · 2021=3 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Utility Contracting Company falls in its industry

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #53 safest of 54 Underground cable (e.g., cable employers in Michigan.

Utility Contracting Company (111 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Utility Contracting Company
Utility Contracting Company (111 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Utility Contracting Company has more employees than the Underground cable (e.g., cable televisio 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
2024 4.3 3.5 5 0 0
2021 3.0 2.3 4 0 0
2020 7.5 1.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · MI · Sparta

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 33 employers in Sparta, 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 Western Construction of Kansas 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Consolidated Electric Service, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-MA-Wilmington- Research Drive 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SC503 - Bristol 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2552-Constantine, MI 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE KEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. d/b/a ACD.net 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEI Michigan, LLC 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoreline Power Services 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agrico Labor LLC 559 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Formulations 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Powertrain 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Division 149 FTE
NAT-TCR North Carolina State Veterans Home Salisbury 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Francis Medical Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oxford IL 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR So Cal Post Acute Care 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE A & E Construction Co. 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azalea Health and Rehab Center 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monroe Continuing Care Center L.C. dba St. Joseph Continuing Care Center 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE R&S Excavation, LLC 111 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.