Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Balester Optical Company

Name: Balester Optical Company Workplace Safety Data
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Wilkes Barre, PA · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Balester Optical Company runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Balester Optical Company: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Balester Optical Company safety composite

Balester Optical Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2016→2019

Balester Optical Company injury rate improved

Balester Optical Company's TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339115 · Wilkes Barre, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK P71
PHOTO Hoya St Louis
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hoya St Louis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alcon JCM

1.4
3LZ - Smith Op

1.4
Bell Optical

1.4
This site

1.3
Hoya St Louis

1.3

What this shows Balester Optical Company averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Balester Optical Company TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Balester Optical Company falls in its industry

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufactur establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Balester Optical Company (33 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Balester Optical Company has fewer employees than the Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2016	2.7	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339115 · PA · Wilkes Barre

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 86 employers in Wilkes Barre, PA · 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	Hoya St Louis	COLUMBIA, IL	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Alcon JCM	JOHNS CREEK, GA	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	3LZ - Smith Optics -Clearfield	CLEARFIELD, UT	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bell Optical	GROVEPORT, OH	1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Caputo & Guest	KENNETT SQUARE	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Colver Power Project	COLVER	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Oil City	OIL CITY	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Norristown Operations	NORRISTOWN	33 FTE
CITY-NEAR	GEISINGER WYOMING VALLEY MEDIC	Wilkes Barre	2,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AVP1	Wilkes Barre	1,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Wilkes Barre Hospital Company, LLC	Wilkes Barre	1,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Dynamics OTS (Wilkes-Barre), LLC	Wilkes Barre	517 FTE
NAT-TCR	Courtyard & SpringHill Suites Indianapolis DT	Indianapolis, IN	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	1013 Redwood Road	Salt Lake City, UT	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Disposal	Fort Worth, TX	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	NEJ, Inc. Pines	Beacon Falls, CT	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Naval Hospital	Bremerton, WA	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hampton Inn Omaha Dt	Omaha, NE	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Denver Terminal	Commerce City, CO	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hilton Garden Inn Silver Spring	Silver Spring, MD	33 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.