Telecommunications · California

VC025 - VCI - Upland

Upland, CA · ~129 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VC025 - VCI - Upland runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade D.

VC025 - VCI - Upland: 5.5 TCR = 198% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VC025 - VCI - Upland safety composite

VC025 - VCI - Upland scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

VC025 - VCI - Upland: 4.4 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2018

VC025 - VCI - Upland's TCR rose 2.4 from 4.4 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Upland, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #112/147
  • PHOTO Legacy Power Line
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Legacy Power Line (0.0 TCR gap)

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VC025 - VCI - Upland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VC025 - VCI - Upland averages 5.5 TCR (198% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

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

VC025 - VCI - Upland TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2018=6.8 · BLS 2.8

Where VC025 - VCI - Upland falls in its industry

1,605 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #112 safest of 147 Telecommunications employers in California.

VC025 - VCI - Upland (129 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 VC025 - VCI - Upland
VC025 - VCI - Upland (129 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

VC025 - VCI - Upland has more employees than the Telecommunications 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 6.8 6.8 1 0 0
2016 4.4 3.9 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · CA · Upland

1,605 Telecommunications employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 80 employers in Upland, CA · 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 Legacy Power Line 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR KLK Construction 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henkels & McCoy, Inc. - Lone Tree, CO 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tilson Technology Management, Inc., Bow, NH 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE MIGUEL OLIVARES & SONS 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUPERIOR AG. 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manco Ag Services 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE LADWP 11791 TRUESDALE 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR San Antonio Regional Hospital 2,315 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Respite Care, Inc. 1,275 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-036 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-007 908 FTE
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 0853 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewistown (Palew) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Greensboro Hub (Ncgre) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrington (Demil) 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE NAPP Greeneville 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Troy Center 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cincinnati (Ohshn) 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owensboro (Kyowe) 129 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.