Other Pressed and Blown Glass and Glassware Manufacturing · North Carolina

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC

Midland, NC · ~974 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Other Pressed and Blown Glass and Glassware Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Other Pressed and Blown Glass and Glassware Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC safety composite

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC held a steady TCR band

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.7 in 2023 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.7 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327212 · Midland, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Corning - Concord Fa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~974 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corning - Concord Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Other Pressed and Blown Glass and Glassware Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC TCR series: 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC falls in its industry

75 Other Pressed and Blown Glass establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Other Pressed and Blown Glass employers in North Carolina.

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC (974 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 141 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC
Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC (974 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 141 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Concord, NC has more employees than the Other Pressed and Blown Glass and Glassw median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 0.6 0.5 7 0 0
2023 0.7 0.6 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327212 · NC · Midland

75 Other Pressed and Blown Glass and Glassware Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 20 employers in Midland, NC · 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 Corning - Concord Facility 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Etowah 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens Corning - Aiken 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shafter Glass Mat 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE FSC II, LLC dba Fred Smith Company 974 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0960 974 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant 975 FTE
STATE-SIZE INT-WINSTON-SALEM 975 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sealand South 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midland 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Intertape Polymer Group 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premier Mfg. Co., LLC 56 FTE
NAT-TCR Sun Electric Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Amflex Drive 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Spokane 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0543 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - ABE4 974 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orion Marine Group 974 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cuyuna Regional Crosby Hospital Services 974 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ozarks Medical Center 974 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.