Dental laboratories · Michigan

00235 - Ward

Brighton, MI · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

00235 - Ward runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Dental laboratories workplace, earning a grade A.

00235 - Ward: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Dental laboratories BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

00235 - Ward safety composite

00235 - Ward scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

00235 - Ward: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2024

00235 - Ward's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2023 to 2.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339116 · Brighton, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #3/12
  • PHOTO NDX TWIN CITIES LABO…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NDX TWIN CITIES LABORATORIES (0.0 TCR gap)

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00235 - Ward in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 00235 - Ward averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Dental laboratories BLS benchmark).

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

00235 - Ward TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where 00235 - Ward falls in its industry

184 Dental laboratories establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 12 Dental laboratories employers in Michigan.

00235 - Ward (40 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 05001,0001,500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 00235 - Ward
00235 - Ward (40 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6

00235 - Ward has fewer employees than the Dental laboratories median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339116 · MI · Brighton

184 Dental laboratories employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 119 employers in Brighton, MI · 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 NDX TWIN CITIES LABORATORIES 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CQC Dental Lab 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDX PERRY AND YOUNG DENTAL LAB 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2144 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shelbyville, MI 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan & Jerrys Pineview Greenhouse LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thumb Electric Cooperative of Michigan 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR MI-BRIGH01 544 FTE
CITY-NEAR BrightonENA 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR MI-BRIGH01-Brighton - MI - Warehouse 382 FTE
CITY-NEAR TGFS 353 FTE
NAT-TCR Procter & Gamble Hair Care Company, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hobbs 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stoneledge Furniture LLC- Stockton 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Magnetic Sensors Corporation 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Adult Basic Education 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE RBC Bremen 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ralph E. Tolbert Masonry, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wichita Tooling Center 40 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. 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.