Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing · North Carolina

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC

Newton, NC · ~234 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC: 1.0 TCR = 31% of Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

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

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335921 · Newton, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #8/15
  • PHOTO Howell Road
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Howell Road (0.0 TCR gap)

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Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, 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) : Newton, NC averages 1.0 TCR (31% of the Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

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

49 Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturin establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 15 Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturin employers in North Carolina.

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC (234 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC
Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC (234 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC has more employees than the Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 2.1 0.5 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335921 · NC · Newton

49 Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 83 employers in Newton, 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 Howell Road 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CompuLink-USA 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GRUBER INDUSTRIES, INC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aurora Location 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Highland Paving CO LLC 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Infrastructure Group, Inc 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gildan Yarns, LLC (Plant # 74) 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albemarle U.S. Inc 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton NC DC 1,644 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton DC 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN ePowertrain Newton 1,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Driveline Newton LLC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Safran Seats USA 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR United Roofing 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cc Florida Weston 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ThermoFab 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pacific Tomato Growers, Ltd/PTG Management Co. - Palmetto Location 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Dorchester 2 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orion Industries 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Finish Concrete Inc 234 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.