Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire · North Carolina

Optical Cable Corporation Asheville

Swannanoa, NC · ~53 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Optical Cable Corporation Asheville runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire workplace, earning a grade A.

Optical Cable Corporation Asheville: 1.1 TCR = 33% of Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Optical Cable Corporation Asheville safety composite

Optical Cable Corporation Asheville 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Optical Cable Corporation Asheville held a steady TCR band

Optical Cable Corporation Asheville's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=4.3 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335929 · Swannanoa, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/18
  • PHOTO General Cable Corpor…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Cable Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Optical Cable Corporation Asheville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Optical Cable Corporation Asheville averages 1.1 TCR (33% 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

Optical Cable Corporation Asheville TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.3 · 2021=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Optical Cable Corporation Asheville falls in its industry

144 Communications wire and cable, establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 18 Communications wire and cable, employers in North Carolina.

Optical Cable Corporation Asheville (53 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 Optical Cable Corporation Asheville
Optical Cable Corporation Asheville (53 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Optical Cable Corporation Asheville has fewer employees than the Communications wire and cable, nonferrou median and a lower 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.3 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335929 · NC · Swannanoa

144 Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 11 employers in Swannanoa, NC · 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 General Cable Corporation 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Draka Elevator Products, Inc. - Battleboro 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwire DCN 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Draka Elevator Products, Inc. - Rocy Mount 1.1 TCR
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STATE-SIZE CPI USA NC LLC - Southport 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsboro Resource Center - PNG 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Master Telecommunications 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Warren Wilson College 949 FTE
CITY-NEAR National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gentry service Group 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT WARREN WILSON COLL-DINING HALL 83 FTE
NAT-TCR Coated Products Division 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewiston Office 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Fastener Co., Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TexaStone Quarries 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lake Buena Vista Golf Course 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE *Germantown Community Health Services 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fox Valley Delivery Service, LLC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Graphic Arts Bindery LLC 53 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: 2023, 2021, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.