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

Ortronics Inc.

Hickory, NC · ~64 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ortronics Inc. runs at 15% 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.

Ortronics Inc.: 0.5 TCR = 15% of Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ortronics Inc. safety composite

Ortronics Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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%).

Ortronics Inc. held a steady TCR band

Ortronics Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335921 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/15
  • PHOTO Newton Corning (NCP)
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Newton Corning (NCP) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ortronics Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ortronics Inc. averages 0.5 TCR (15% 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

Ortronics Inc. TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Ortronics Inc. falls in its industry

49 Fiber optic cable made from pu establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 15 Fiber optic cable made from pu employers in North Carolina.

Ortronics Inc. (64 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 Ortronics Inc.
Ortronics Inc. (64 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Ortronics Inc. 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335921 · NC · Hickory

49 Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, 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 Newton Corning (NCP) 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berk-Tek LLC - 2 FV 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coherent East Granby 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Cabling Technologies, Inc. 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agrarian Inc 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilmington Eastern Region Office 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Randolph Electric Membership Corporation 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apex Operations Center 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR Monarch Plastics, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Traditions Club Bryan, LP 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Adventist Healthcare Support Center to SGMC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PFT-BORGER 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orrville Trucking 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matrix Packaging Machinery 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE DC - Dallas 64 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. 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.