Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing · Ohio

Essilor USA dba Bell Optical

Columbus, OH · ~251 workers · 2 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

Essilor USA dba Bell Optical runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Essilor USA dba Bell Optical: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essilor USA dba Bell Optical safety composite

Essilor USA dba Bell Optical scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

Essilor USA dba Bell Optical: 0.0 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2021

Essilor USA dba Bell Optical's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.0 in 2020 to 1.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339115 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO CooperVision Scottsv…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~251 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CooperVision Scottsville Manufacturing Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essilor USA dba Bell Optical in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essilor USA dba Bell Optical averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Essilor USA dba Bell Optical TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Essilor USA dba Bell Optical falls in its industry

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufactur establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 12 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufactur employers in Ohio.

Essilor USA dba Bell Optical (251 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 Essilor USA dba Bell Optical
Essilor USA dba Bell Optical (251 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Essilor USA dba Bell Optical has more 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
2021 1.9 1.3 6 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339115 · OH · Columbus

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 CooperVision Scottsville Manufacturing Operations 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walman Optical - Kent 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alcon JCR 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR STAAR SURGICAL LAKE FOREST 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooper Standard 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Acoust-A-Fiber 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foodservice Cincinnati - 0572 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Miami Jewish Home 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Milwaukee, WI HVAC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR US080: Orlando 291 - SG 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson Controls Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Adult Correction Center 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-CNUC 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Millis 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSM Nutritional Products - Belvidere NJ 251 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: 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.