Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors · North Carolina

Whitlock - Durham

Name: Whitlock - Durham Workplace Safety Data
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Durham, NC · ~77 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.6
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Whitlock - Durham runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

Whitlock - Durham: 1.6 TCR = 58% of Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whitlock - Durham safety composite

Whitlock - Durham scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers
DART rate: F 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Whitlock - Durham: 1.3 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2019

Whitlock - Durham's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.3 in 2017 to 1.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Durham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 58% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #43/108
PHOTO Telamon Corporation …
BOOK 3y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Telamon Corporation - Fenton (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.6
Lighthouse Ele

1.6
Schmitt Electr

1.6

What this shows Whitlock - Durham averages 1.6 TCR (58% of the Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors BLS benchmark).

Whitlock - Durham TCR series: 2017=1.3 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=1.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Whitlock - Durham falls in its industry

4,550 Telecommunications equipment a establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 108 Telecommunications equipment a employers in North Carolina.

Whitlock - Durham (77 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Whitlock - Durham has more employees than the Telecommunications equipment and wiring median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2019	1.9	1.9	1
2018	1.7	1.7	1
2017	1.3	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · NC · Durham

4,550 Telecommunications equipment and wiring (except transmission line) installation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Telamon Corporation - Fenton	FENTON, MO	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sprint Electrical Service, Inc.	ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lighthouse Electrical Contractor	AUSTIN, TX	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Schmitt Electric, Inc.	WENATCHEE, WA	1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Rutherford-Polk	FOREST CITY	77 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Triangle Warehouse	RALEIGH	77 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Water Resources	NEW BERN	77 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Raleigh Asphalt Operations	RALEIGH	77 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Duke University	Durham	23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Duke University Hospital	Durham	11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BCBSNC Telecommuters	Durham	3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Wolfspeed - Durham, NC	Durham	3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR	US Corrugated Santa Fe Springs	Santa Fe Springs, CA	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	ND,MAYVILLE - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals	Mayville, ND	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lake Superior College	Duluth, MN	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	AMEREN SERVICES - Stores - IP	Decatur, IL	1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	QSI-Collinsville	Collinsville, AL	77 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Alternative Energy Development	Tampa, FL	77 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Arden Hills Facility	Arden Hills, MN	77 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rupley Elementary School	Elk Grove Village, IL	77 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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