Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing · North Carolina

Southern Optical Greensboro

Greensboro, NC · ~151 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Optical Greensboro runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Southern Optical Greensboro: 3.2 TCR = 97% of Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Optical Greensboro safety composite

Southern Optical Greensboro scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Southern Optical Greensboro: 0.7 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Southern Optical Greensboro's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.7 in 2019 to 5.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339115 · Greensboro, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 97% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK P25
  • PHOTO Walman Optical- Omaha
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Walman Optical- Omaha (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Optical Greensboro in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Optical Greensboro averages 3.2 TCR (97% of the Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Optical Greensboro TCR series: 2019=0.7 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=3.8 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Optical Greensboro falls in its industry

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufactur establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Southern Optical Greensboro (151 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 Southern Optical Greensboro
Southern Optical Greensboro (151 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Southern Optical Greensboro has more employees than the Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing 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 5.4 3.4 8 0 0
2021 3.8 2.3 5 0 0
2020 2.8 2.8 3 0 0
2019 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339115 · NC · Greensboro

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 920 employers in Greensboro, 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 Walman Optical- Omaha 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing Building 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kentek Corporation 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoya Vision Care, Tacoma 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Graycliff Enterprises 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aquafil OMara 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisiana-Pacific Roxboro 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poppelmann Plastics USA LLC 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR MHCMH-Cone-Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital 3,806 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government - All Employees 3,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government 3,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR NCGRE - GREENSBORO HUB 2,447 FTE
NAT-TCR 538 - Mercedes 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ewing Irrigation Products, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Centerra Co-op, Volant 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Bay WI FXFE-GRB 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 71 - Kennesaw 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Burbank - Police - Safety Members 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westchester Med Ctr 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE 98 Starr Farm Road Operating Company LLC 151 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.