Manufacture of Dental Restoration · Connecticut

Alternative Dental Laboratory

North Haven, CT · ~33 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alternative Dental Laboratory runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Manufacture of Dental Restoration workplace, earning a grade D.

Alternative Dental Laboratory: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Manufacture of Dental Restoration BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alternative Dental Laboratory safety composite

Alternative Dental Laboratory scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Alternative Dental Laboratory: 0.0 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.77× in 2024

Alternative Dental Laboratory's TCR rose 7.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 7.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339116 · North Haven, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK P20
  • PHOTO Signature Lab
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Signature Lab (0.1 TCR gap)

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Alternative Dental Laboratory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alternative Dental Laboratory averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Manufacture of Dental Restoration BLS benchmark).

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

Alternative Dental Laboratory TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=9.7 · 2021=4 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Alternative Dental Laboratory falls in its industry

184 Manufacture of Dental Restorat establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Alternative Dental Laboratory (33 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Alternative Dental Laboratory
Alternative Dental Laboratory (33 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Alternative Dental Laboratory has fewer employees than the Manufacture of Dental Restoration median and a higher 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 7.5 7.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2021 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2020 9.7 9.7 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339116 · CT · North Haven

184 Manufacture of Dental Restoration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 95 employers in North Haven, CT · 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 Signature Lab 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDX DAVIS 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Wood shop 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDX Affinity 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greater New Haven WPCA 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority - Administrative Bldg. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Nutmeg Companies, Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaFramboise Well Drilling, Inc. 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BDL3 4,773 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BDL3 4,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR CT-01 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medtonic 2,818 FTE
NAT-TCR Litter Distributing Co. Inc. DBA Classic Brands Chillicothe 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Augusta Area Home 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Idaho Falls District Office 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Terraces at Capitol Village 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forno Enterprises, Inc 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cr Windows Inc 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Public Defender 33 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. 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.