Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) · Florida

Youngs Communications Co Inc

Melbourne, FL · ~164 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Youngs Communications Co Inc runs at 390% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) workplace, earning a grade F.

Youngs Communications Co Inc: 10.9 TCR = 390% of Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Youngs Communications Co Inc safety composite

Youngs Communications Co Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−5.2

2016→2019

Youngs Communications Co Inc injury rate improved

Youngs Communications Co Inc's TCR fell 5.2 from 11.9 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.9 · 2018=14.1 · 2019=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Melbourne, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 390% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #54/60
  • PHOTO Foertsch Constructio…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foertsch Construction Co. Inc, (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Florida employers → · Look up another →

Youngs Communications Co Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Youngs Communications Co Inc averages 10.9 TCR (390% of the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS benchmark).

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

Youngs Communications Co Inc TCR series: 2016=11.9 · 2018=14.1 · 2019=6.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Youngs Communications Co Inc falls in its industry

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 60 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und employers in Florida.

Youngs Communications Co Inc (164 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Youngs Communications Co Inc
Youngs Communications Co Inc (164 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Youngs Communications Co Inc has more employees than the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground c median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2019 6.7 4.0 14 1 0
2018 14.1 3.3 22 4 0
2016 11.9 4.4 17 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · FL · Melbourne

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 305 employers in Melbourne, FL · 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 Foertsch Construction Co. Inc, 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Altair Enviromental Group 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DPW 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newt Marine Service 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moriarty 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE masonry builders inc. 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE AJ Johns 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Food Manufacturing 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A458 4,719 FTE
CITY-NEAR HOLMES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nextech HVACR 2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health First Medical Group 1,787 FTE
NAT-TCR St Albans Vermont Site 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ec Anto Waiver Core Office 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SVC - The Legacy Golf Resort 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Novotec Recycling LLC 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE SSA Pacific B Street Cruise Terminal 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wetmore 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayfield - Braselton 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate - Bel Ridge, MO 164 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.