Telecommunications carriers, wired · Texas

XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.

Dalhart, TX · ~41 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. runs at 419% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.: 2.9 TCR = 419% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. safety composite

XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.: 0.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Dalhart, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 2.9 · 419% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #54/61
  • PHOTO FM Plant
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FM Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. averages 2.9 TCR (419% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=0 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 0.7

Where XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 61 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Texas.

XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (41 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (41 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 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
2024 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.9 4.6 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 8.3 8.3 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · TX · Dalhart

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 22 employers in Dalhart, TX · 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 FM Plant 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mediacom Springfield 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wave Division Holdings LLC Bothell 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Massillon Cable TV, Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Val Verde Vegetable Co., Inc. 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE LS QUIEN SABE LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE BREEDER / BROILER DEPARTMENT 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Expo12 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc 537 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart 512 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS Live Pork LLC. Dalhart 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR USM Store 534 197 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Valley Training Center, Inc.- Administration 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #184 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #211 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ANI Pharmaceuticals - Main Street Facility 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE NILMNVentures 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gallatin Department of Electricity 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edgefield County Water and Sewer Authority 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of White Bear Lake - City Hall 41 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, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.