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StepUp ROI

Quantify time savings, and safety benefits for your crews and utility operations with the StepUp Utility Pole Platform. This Calculator is easier to use on a desktop. On mobile, tap the calculator and scroll.

Adjust the inputs to match your crews and typical jobs.

The No-Risk Pilot Program

We know ROI calculators only go so far. The fastest way to find out if StepUp works for your operation is to put one on a pole. Here's how it works:

Buy up to 2 StepUp units — standard pricing, normal invoicing.
Run them with your crews for 30 days. No special conditions, no check-ins, no paperwork — just use them.
If your crews don't want to keep them, send them back. You're only out shipping.
If they do want to keep them (they will), we'll talk fleet pricing for the rest of your operation.

That's it. No contracts, no lock-ins, no strings. If we can't prove it in 30 days with real crews on real jobs, we haven't earned the fleet order.

The StepUp ROI Calculator provides estimated savings based on industry average workers' compensation costs, typical lineman injury profiles, and reported time-savings from pilot implementations. Actual results for your operation may vary based on specific crew composition, work environment, existing safety equipment, and regional labor rates. The "35% injury-reduction" figure used as the calculator default is derived from Institute for Work & Health (IWH) analyses of ergonomic interventions in industrial work environments. Savings estimates are for financial modeling purposes only and do not constitute a guarantee of specific workers' compensation premium reductions or injury prevention outcomes.

Stop sending your crews home exhausted.

Try up to 2 StepUps for 30 days. If they don't want to keep them, send them back — you only cover shipping.

33%

Of all workplace injuries and illness cases are musculoskeletal disorders.

Source: BLS via NSC.

The Hidden Cost of Pole-Work Injuries

Electrical utility line work carries one of the highest injury burdens in the American workforce. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, distribution linemen experience acute injury rates of 27.8 per 100 person-work-years, with sprains, strains, and trunk injuries dominating the category. Apprentice rates are even higher at 43.3 per 100. The injuries that show up most often aren't the dramatic ones — they're the accumulated back, shoulder, and knee damage from working non-climbable poles in awkward positions for years.

$55K

Average lost-time workers comp claim for arm/shoulder injuries.

Source: NCCI 2022–2023 data.

937K+

US private-sector MSD cases with days away or restrictions in 2023–24.

Source: BLS SOII.

Why MSDs, Not Falls, Are the Real Cost Center

Falls from height get the headlines, and OSHA reporting focuses on fatalities for good reason. But for most utility operations, the ongoing financial drain comes from soft-tissue injuries that don't make the news — rotator cuff tears, lumbar strains, chronic knee damage. WCRI's 194,000-claim analysis of back and shoulder injuries found that a single high-cost claim can exceed $65,000 in medical expenses alone within 36 months. Direct Muscular Skeletal Disorders costs run $15,000 to $85,000 per case, with indirect costs doubling or tripling that figure.

What the Research Says About Prevention

Ergonomic interventions are among the most cost-effective safety investments available. A 2017 Institute for Work & Health analysis found that ergonomic interventions reduced workers' compensation claims by up to 62%, injury rates by two-thirds, and lost hours by 35%. OSHA's own modeling projects 15–35% injury reductions for employers implementing structured prevention programs.

How StepUp Addresses the Root Cause

The StepUp is a pole-mounted work platform that puts a lineman in the green zone — proper working position, stable footing, natural reach — instead of forcing them to torque their shoulders and lower back to work secondaries and services on non-climbable composite and fiberglass poles. That biomechanical fix is exactly the kind of engineered intervention the research supports. It doesn't replace your existing safety program; it addresses the physical demands that training and PPE can't eliminate.