Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing · New Jersey

Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc.

Blackwood, NJ · ~83 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc.: 2.0 TCR = 62% of Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. safety composite

Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−0.9

2023→2024

Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. injury rate improved

Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.9 from 2.5 in 2023 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.5 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339115 · Blackwood, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P45
  • PHOTO Essilor Laboratories…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Essilor Laboratories of America Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. averages 2.0 TCR (62% of the Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. TCR series: 2023=2.5 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. falls in its industry

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufactur establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. (83 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,5002,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc.
Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. (83 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. has fewer employees than the Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing median and a higher 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
2024 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2023 2.5 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339115 · NJ · Blackwood

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 28 employers in Blackwood, NJ · 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 Essilor Laboratories of America Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR EssilorLuxottica Dallas North Creek Lab 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midland Optical 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoya Vision Care North America - Dallas 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Jersey American Water - Shrewsbury Field Ops 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jottan, Inc. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Totowa NJ 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Armistead Mechanical-New Jersey 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manufacturing Building 633 FTE
CITY-NEAR JPC Group Inc 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR McCloskey Mechanical Contractors Inc. 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR A.P. Construction Incorporated 166 FTE
NAT-TCR National Electrostatics Corporation 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 212 Fenton 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR kSARIA Corporation 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hemphill Construction Co., Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 722 Carbondale 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE 193 Concord 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amcor Flexibles LLC 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loll Designs 83 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. 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.