Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand · South Carolina

Howell Road

Duncan, SC · ~41 workers · 4 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

Howell Road runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand workplace, earning a grade A.

Howell Road: 1.0 TCR = 31% of Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howell Road safety composite

Howell Road scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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

70/100

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
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Howell Road held a steady TCR band

Howell Road's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335921 · Duncan, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Corning Optical Comm…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howell Road in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howell Road averages 1.0 TCR (31% of the Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand BLS benchmark).

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

Howell Road TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Howell Road falls in its industry

49 Fiber optic cable made from pu establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Fiber optic cable made from pu employers in South Carolina.

Howell Road (41 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 Howell Road
Howell Road (41 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Howell Road has fewer employees than the Fiber optic cable made from purchased fi 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335921 · SC · Duncan

49 Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 104 employers in Duncan, SC · 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 Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC 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 Bad Creek Hydro 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCMEEKIN STEAM PLANT 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgefield County Water and Sewer Authority 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unitherm Columbia 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Draexlmaier Automotive 981 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Duncan 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fehrer Automotive SC, LLC 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roechling Automotive / Duncan 393 FTE
NAT-TCR AllPoints Foodservice Parts & Supplies 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulf Crane Services Covington 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 236 - Medina 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennsylvania Rail Car Co. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 32 Phoenix Metals Birmingham 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blair Air, Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE DEC-ODFL 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1059 41 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.