Lens grinding, ophthalmic (except in retail stores) · Washington

Walman Optical - Kent

Kent, WA · ~68 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walman Optical - Kent runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lens grinding, ophthalmic (except in retail stores) workplace, earning a grade A.

Walman Optical - Kent: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Lens grinding, ophthalmic (except in retail stores) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walman Optical - Kent safety composite

Walman Optical - Kent scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Walman Optical - Kent: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.99× in 2024

Walman Optical - Kent's TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339115 · Kent, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO CooperVision Scottsv…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CooperVision Scottsville Manufacturing Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walman Optical - Kent in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walman Optical - Kent averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Lens grinding, ophthalmic (except in retail stores) BLS benchmark).

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

Walman Optical - Kent TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Walman Optical - Kent falls in its industry

135 Lens grinding, ophthalmic (exc establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Lens grinding, ophthalmic (exc employers in Washington.

Walman Optical - Kent (68 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 Walman Optical - Kent
Walman Optical - Kent (68 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Walman Optical - Kent has fewer employees than the Lens grinding, ophthalmic (except in ret 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
2024 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339115 · WA · Kent

135 Lens grinding, ophthalmic (except in retail stores) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kent, WA · 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 CooperVision Scottsville Manufacturing Operations 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essilor USA dba Bell Optical 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alcon JCR 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR STAAR SURGICAL LAKE FOREST 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Baker Produce - Goosehill I 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE PSE, OLY - Olympia Business Office 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Regenis LLC 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newport 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Origin 3,939 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BFI4 2,994 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFI4 2,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR WA006 2,529 FTE
NAT-TCR Hunter Roberts Construction Group- NY 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR National Water Infrastructure 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Odessa Tx - 835 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Young's Masonry, Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Norotos, Inc. 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bsl Rye Investors LLC 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Cambridge 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Network Enterprises Inc 68 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. 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.