Lens coating, ophthalmic · Kentucky

Erlanger, Kentucky Lab

Erlanger, KY · ~228 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Erlanger, Kentucky Lab runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lens coating, ophthalmic workplace, earning a grade A.

Erlanger, Kentucky Lab: 0.9 TCR = 26% of Lens coating, ophthalmic BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Erlanger, Kentucky Lab safety composite

Erlanger, Kentucky Lab scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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)
B 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Erlanger, Kentucky Lab: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2024

Erlanger, Kentucky Lab's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 1.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339115 · Erlanger, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 26% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO STAAR SURGICAL LAKE …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~228 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STAAR SURGICAL LAKE FOREST (0.0 TCR gap)

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Erlanger, Kentucky Lab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Erlanger, Kentucky Lab averages 0.9 TCR (26% of the Lens coating, ophthalmic BLS benchmark).

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

Erlanger, Kentucky Lab TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Erlanger, Kentucky Lab falls in its industry

135 Lens coating, ophthalmic establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Lens coating, ophthalmic employers in Kentucky.

Erlanger, Kentucky Lab (228 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 Erlanger, Kentucky Lab
Erlanger, Kentucky Lab (228 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Erlanger, Kentucky Lab has more employees than the Lens coating, ophthalmic 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
2024 1.7 1.4 5 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 4 0 0
2022 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2021 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339115 · KY · Erlanger

135 Lens coating, ophthalmic employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 118 employers in Erlanger, KY · 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 STAAR SURGICAL LAKE FOREST 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR VSPOne New York 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CooperVision Caribbean Corp 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CooperVision Scottsville Manufacturing Operations 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE LORD Corporation - Bowling Green 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Republic Conduit Manufacturing, LLC 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE LDRM Visa Support Services KCC-DTSV 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monroe County Medical Center 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR CVG US HUB 3,714 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - KCVG 3,700 FTE
CITY-NEAR CVG RO 3,576 FTE
CITY-NEAR CVGGATEWAY 697 FTE
NAT-TCR H. A. Guden Company, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR EBM North Carolina Holdings, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CCL Specialty Cartons 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Best Choice Roofing and Home Improvement Incorporated 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nelson Bros. Ready Mix, Ltd. 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nypro 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10150 San Mateo 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10185 Old Town 228 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.