Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing · Kentucky

PDS Consultants Inc #1

Louisville, KY · ~219 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PDS Consultants Inc #1 runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

PDS Consultants Inc #1: 1.6 TCR = 49% of Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PDS Consultants Inc #1 safety composite

PDS Consultants Inc #1 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−2.8

2021→2023

PDS Consultants Inc #1 injury rate improved

PDS Consultants Inc #1's TCR fell 2.8 from 3.2 in 2021 to 0.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.2 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339115 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 49% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Advance Optical Sale…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advance Optical Sales Co. Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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PDS Consultants Inc #1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PDS Consultants Inc #1 averages 1.6 TCR (49% of the Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PDS Consultants Inc #1 TCR series: 2021=3.2 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where PDS Consultants Inc #1 falls in its industry

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufactur establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufactur employers in Kentucky.

PDS Consultants Inc #1 (219 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,5002,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate PDS Consultants Inc #1
PDS Consultants Inc #1 (219 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 1.9

PDS Consultants Inc #1 has more employees than the Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 1.1 0.6 1 1 0
2021 3.2 2.7 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339115 · KY · Louisville

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 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 Advance Optical Sales Co. Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR VSPOne Columbus 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walman Optical- Branch 40 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luxottica Retail Rx Operations Cincinnati 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schardein Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE GUBMK Constructors - TVA Shawnee Fossil Plant 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&J Pepsi- Lexington 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Flextronics America LLC - Research Campus 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Robert Bearden Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectrum Intermediate, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Town of Pittsford 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woda Cooper Companies 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willow Creek Companies, LLC 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herbalife International of America, Inc. - LA Live 219 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.