Instrument lenses manufacturing · New Jersey

Thorlabs Inc. NJ

Newton, NJ · ~897 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thorlabs Inc. NJ runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Instrument lenses manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Thorlabs Inc. NJ: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Instrument lenses manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thorlabs Inc. NJ safety composite

Thorlabs Inc. NJ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Thorlabs Inc. NJ: 0.9 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Thorlabs Inc. NJ's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.9 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333314 · Newton, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO L3 Technologies Bras…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 109 inj
  • SIZE ~897 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: L3 Technologies Brashear (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thorlabs Inc. NJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thorlabs Inc. NJ averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Instrument lenses manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Thorlabs Inc. NJ TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=0.5 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=1 · 2021=2 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Thorlabs Inc. NJ falls in its industry

145 Instrument lenses manufacturin establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Instrument lenses manufacturin employers in New Jersey.

Thorlabs Inc. NJ (897 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Thorlabs Inc. NJ
Thorlabs Inc. NJ (897 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Thorlabs Inc. NJ has more employees than the Instrument lenses manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 1.6 1.3 17 0 0
2023 1.8 1.6 22 0 0
2022 1.8 1.1 17 0 0
2021 2.0 1.5 16 1 0
2020 1.0 0.6 7 0 0
2019 0.7 0.2 7 0 0
2018 1.4 0.5 12 0 0
2017 0.5 0.3 4 0 0
2016 0.9 0.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333314 · NJ · Newton

145 Instrument lenses manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 31 employers in Newton, NJ · 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 L3 Technologies Brashear 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KARL STORZ Endovision, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2967-CT135 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Materion - Westford - Tyngsboro 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Menasha Packaging Company - Truman 897 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jefferson Hospital Stratford 895 FTE
STATE-SIZE Firmenich Inc - Plainsboro 892 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6795-86080B0199 902 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newton Medical Center 1,212 FTE
CITY-NEAR ShopRite of Newton 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newton Shoprite 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bristol Glen 216 FTE
NAT-TCR Carlie C's Service Center 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR USA TX Garland West Miller Road Plant 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Miramar CA Home Center 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JS Rae - Berkshire 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Opportunity Partners - Koch Campus 897 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eufaula Fresh Plant 897 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodlands Towers 897 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph Health Center 897 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.