Gratings, diffraction, manufacturing · New York

Richardson Gratings

Rochester, NY · ~62 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richardson Gratings runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Gratings, diffraction, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Richardson Gratings: 5.2 TCR = 158% of Gratings, diffraction, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richardson Gratings safety composite

Richardson Gratings scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Richardson Gratings: 3.3 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2017

Richardson Gratings's TCR rose 3.8 from 3.3 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333314 · Rochester, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 158% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO ISP Optics Corporation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ISP Optics Corporation (0.1 TCR gap)

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Richardson Gratings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richardson Gratings averages 5.2 TCR (158% of the Gratings, diffraction, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Richardson Gratings TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Richardson Gratings falls in its industry

145 Gratings, diffraction, manufac establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Gratings, diffraction, manufac employers in New York.

Richardson Gratings (62 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Richardson Gratings
Richardson Gratings (62 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Richardson Gratings has fewer employees than the Gratings, diffraction, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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
2017 7.1 7.1 4 0 0
2016 3.3 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333314 · NY · Rochester

145 Gratings, diffraction, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 956 employers in Rochester, NY · 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 ISP Optics Corporation 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lightforce USA, Inc. dba Nightforce Optics Inc. - GA 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Semrock Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISP Optics Corporation 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Care New York LLC.-Rochester 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Utilities - Massena 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kings County Waterproofing Corp 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE E-J Energy 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Division 50 University of Rochester 13,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochester General Hospital 7,833 FTE
CITY-NEAR Division 40 University of Rochester 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Hospital 3,158 FTE
NAT-TCR TriMet Center Bus Maintenance Building 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Times Supermarket - Kamehameha 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Outpatient Rehabilitation at the YMCA 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hickory Ridge Nursing & Rehab Center 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marshall Dekalb Electric Copperative 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Valley Adult Resources 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schnell Contractors, Inc - Louisville Kentucky 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Tipton LLC 62 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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