Telephones (except cellular telephone) manufacturing · Arkansas

Optus Inc

Jonesboro, AR · ~92 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Optus Inc runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Telephones (except cellular telephone) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Optus Inc: 0.4 TCR = 11% of Telephones (except cellular telephone) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Optus Inc safety composite

Optus Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Optus Inc: 0.0 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2020

Optus Inc's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334210 · Jonesboro, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 11% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK P86
  • PHOTO Telamon Corporation …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Telamon Corporation - Upland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Optus Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Optus Inc averages 0.4 TCR (11% of the Telephones (except cellular telephone) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Optus Inc TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Optus Inc falls in its industry

42 Telephones (except cellular te establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Optus Inc (92 employees, TCR 0.4) among 27 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 1.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 28 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Optus Inc
Optus Inc (92 employees, TCR 0.4) among 27 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 1.0

Optus Inc has more employees than the Telephones (except cellular telephone) m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.0. 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
2020 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334210 · AR · Jonesboro

42 Telephones (except cellular telephone) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 169 employers in Jonesboro, AR · 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 Telamon Corporation - Upland 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAC ITS, LLC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Molex LLC, Optical Solutions, Downers Grove 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA Mfg Lincoln 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crow Paving and Construction 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flint Creek 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydro Magnolia 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2742 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Bernards Medical Center 3,466 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Bernards Hospital 1,975 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hytrol Conveyor Company - Jonesboro 1,366 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital 1,244 FTE
NAT-TCR Stillwater 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Le Mars Truck & Trailer 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ticona- Florence 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bay City Hospice 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advantage Self Storage Property LLC 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution Center 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forest Oaks 92 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.