Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing · Illinois

Expert Optics

Shorewood, IL · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Expert Optics runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Expert Optics: 2.3 TCR = 69% of Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Expert Optics safety composite

Expert Optics scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Expert Optics: 0.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

Expert Optics's TCR rose 3.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 3.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339115 · Shorewood, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 69% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Walman - Corporate
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Walman - Corporate (0.0 TCR gap)

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Expert Optics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Expert Optics averages 2.3 TCR (69% of the Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Expert Optics TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=3.2 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Expert Optics falls in its industry

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufactur establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufactur employers in Illinois.

Expert Optics (69 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Expert Optics
Expert Optics (69 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Expert Optics 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 3.7 1.8 2 0 0
2021 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339115 · IL · Shorewood

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 29 employers in Shorewood, IL · 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 Walman - Corporate 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walman Instruments 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PDS Consultants Inc #11 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR STAAR SURGICAL TUSTIN 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer HiBred International Inc. McLeansboro Production 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Litchfield 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2057-Centralia, IL (Monsanto Co.) 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hennepin Power Station 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2956 492 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2956 435 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL - Hostess 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC3 Shorewood 229 FTE
NAT-TCR Songbird Lodge 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Falewitch Construction Services 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Louisville Ky - 080 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Century Manufacturing Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oregon Pride Nurseries Inc. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kalama Export 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plymouth Tube Co 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Geer Village 69 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, 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.