Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire · Virginia

Kitco Fiber Optics

Norfolk, VA · ~83 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kitco Fiber Optics runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire workplace, earning a grade C.

Kitco Fiber Optics: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kitco Fiber Optics safety composite

Kitco Fiber Optics scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.2

2022→2024

Kitco Fiber Optics injury rate improved

Kitco Fiber Optics's TCR fell 4.2 from 6.4 in 2022 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.4 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335929 · Norfolk, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P24
  • PHOTO Umbilicals Internati…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Umbilicals International (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kitco Fiber Optics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kitco Fiber Optics averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire BLS benchmark).

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

Kitco Fiber Optics TCR series: 2022=6.4 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Kitco Fiber Optics falls in its industry

144 Communications wire and cable, establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kitco Fiber Optics (83 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kitco Fiber Optics
Kitco Fiber Optics (83 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Kitco Fiber Optics has fewer employees than the Communications wire and cable, nonferrou median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 2.2 0.0 2 0 0
2023 2.8 0.0 2 0 0
2022 6.4 2.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335929 · VA · Norfolk

144 Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 473 employers in Norfolk, VA · 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 Umbilicals International 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Wire & Cable Corp. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Draka Elevator-Church Street 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quabbin Wire & Cable Co., Inc. 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moore's Creek Waste Water Plant 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Atlantic Power Specialists, Inc. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE 705 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE 054-PL001 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Norfolk General Hospital 4,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital of The Kings Dau 3,707 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Atlantic Group dba DZ Atlantic 3,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norfolk State University 2,981 FTE
NAT-TCR NatureBest Pre-Cut & Produce NB2 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta - DEN 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FedEx World Hub 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Camden Clark Memorial Hospital 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parker Plastics WI 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE BTC Fort Worth 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas South NV DI 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lva Admin 83 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. 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.