Eyeglass frames (i.e., fronts and temples), ophthalmic, manufacturing · Iowa

Pech Optical

Sioux City, IA · ~154 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pech Optical runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Eyeglass frames (i.e., fronts and temples), ophthalmic, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Pech Optical: 3.9 TCR = 118% of Eyeglass frames (i.e., fronts and temples), ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pech Optical safety composite

Pech Optical scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

−5.2

2021→2024

Pech Optical injury rate improved

Pech Optical's TCR fell 5.2 from 6.4 in 2021 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.4 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339115 · Sioux City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 118% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK P15
  • PHOTO Vision Ease - Ramsey
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vision Ease - Ramsey (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pech Optical in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pech Optical averages 3.9 TCR (118% of the Eyeglass frames (i.e., fronts and temples), ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pech Optical TCR series: 2021=6.4 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Pech Optical falls in its industry

135 Eyeglass frames (i.e., fronts establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Pech Optical (154 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Pech Optical
Pech Optical (154 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Pech Optical has more employees than the Eyeglass frames (i.e., fronts and temple median and a higher 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
2024 1.3 0.6 2 0 0
2023 3.1 3.1 5 0 0
2022 4.8 3.6 8 0 0
2021 6.4 6.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339115 · IA · Sioux City

135 Eyeglass frames (i.e., fronts and temples), ophthalmic, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, IA · 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 Vision Ease - Ramsey 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2573-MD027 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR VSPOne Dallas 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wood River, IL Lab 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DBF Central Iowa 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walter Scott Energy Center 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE IA-01 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Group B 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Color Factory NYC 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Enplas Life Tech, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 403018-Hollis | NH | 403018 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Alloy Specialties, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crown Cork and Seal - Martinsville Plant 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Energy Cooperative 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Health and Wellness Administration 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of St. Augustine 154 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.