WAAS BORING & CABLE INC
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LOMIRA, WI | Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground
~34 avg employees | 9 years of OSHA data
WAAS BORING & CABLE INC has an average TCR of 11.4, which is 406% of the industry average (2.8) for Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground. This is significantly worse than average.
Safety Insights for WAAS BORING & CABLE INC
WAAS BORING & CABLE INC operates an establishment with approximately 34 full-time equivalent workers in LOMIRA, WI, classified under the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground industry (NAICS 237130). Across 9 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 13 recordable injuries, 24 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 11.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the F letter grade (Failing Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 2.8 for Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground, WAAS BORING & CABLE INC's workforce experiences 406% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 9 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating WAAS BORING & CABLE INC as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from WAAS BORING & CABLE INC's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 237130 — Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2024)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 66,311 hours worked = 0.00 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| WAAS BORING & CABLE INC (this establishment) | 11.37 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg |
| Substation and switching station, power transmission line, construction industry avg | 2.80 | BLS IIF, NAICS 237130 |
| Wisconsin state avg (all industries) | 9.28 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by WAAS BORING & CABLE INC to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 7 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 7 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 4 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 3 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 5 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 3 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 1 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 3 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 5 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 3 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 6 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 3 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21.1 | 0.0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 2023 | 10.1 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 7.1 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 12.8 | 0.0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2020 | 7.0 | 2.3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 8.4 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 15.4 | 0.0 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 2016 | 18.0 | 3.0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
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