Fiber optic connectors manufacturing · Texas

Optical Cable Corporation Plano

Plano, TX · ~63 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Optical Cable Corporation Plano runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fiber optic connectors manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Optical Cable Corporation Plano: 0.3 TCR = 11% of Fiber optic connectors manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Optical Cable Corporation Plano safety composite

Optical Cable Corporation Plano scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Optical Cable Corporation Plano: 0.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Optical Cable Corporation Plano's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334417 · Plano, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Airborn Phoenix
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Airborn Phoenix (0.1 TCR gap)

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Optical Cable Corporation Plano in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Optical Cable Corporation Plano averages 0.3 TCR (11% of the Fiber optic connectors manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Optical Cable Corporation Plano TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2021=0 · 2023=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Optical Cable Corporation Plano falls in its industry

166 Fiber optic connectors manufac establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Fiber optic connectors manufac employers in Texas.

Optical Cable Corporation Plano (63 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,500 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Optical Cable Corporation Plano
Optical Cable Corporation Plano (63 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Optical Cable Corporation Plano has fewer employees than the Fiber optic connectors manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334417 · TX · Plano

166 Fiber optic connectors manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 427 employers in Plano, TX · 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 Airborn Phoenix 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 263 AUT - GREENSBORO 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ICC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR P1 Technologies, Inc. 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Brazos Hatchery 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Radiation Detection Company 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Plainview PLA1 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES : Major Oak Power 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anderson Merchandisers, LLC 5,798 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ericsson, Inc 3,611 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical City Plano 2,470 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zips Car Wash 2,389 FTE
NAT-TCR Deepwell Energy Services LLC. 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Office 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Filtration : Jeffersonville 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Filtration : Slater IGFG 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brunswick - Bath Rd. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific (Milwaukee) LLC 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Petersburg Family YMCA 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Supply Inc. 63 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.