Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers · Washington

Burkhart Dental Supply

Tacoma, WA · ~358 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burkhart Dental Supply runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Burkhart Dental Supply: 3.6 TCR = 162% of Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burkhart Dental Supply safety composite

Burkhart Dental Supply scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Burkhart Dental Supply: 2.7 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2022

Burkhart Dental Supply's TCR rose 1.8 from 2.7 in 2021 to 4.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423450 · Tacoma, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 162% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #3/12
  • PHOTO Henry Schein Dental …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~358 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Henry Schein Dental Salt Lake City Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Burkhart Dental Supply in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burkhart Dental Supply averages 3.6 TCR (162% of the Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Burkhart Dental Supply TCR series: 2021=2.7 · 2022=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Burkhart Dental Supply falls in its industry

754 Appliances, surgical, merchant establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 12 Appliances, surgical, merchant employers in Washington.

Burkhart Dental Supply (358 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Burkhart Dental Supply
Burkhart Dental Supply (358 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Burkhart Dental Supply has more employees than the Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesale median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 4.5 3.3 13 2 0
2021 2.7 1.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423450 · WA · Tacoma

754 Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 445 employers in Tacoma, 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 Henry Schein Dental Salt Lake City Center 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR B80 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens & Minor West Deptford 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens & Minor Nashville 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Dalles Fruit Company 359 FTE
STATE-SIZE PACCAR Inc - Corporate Office 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vigor Marine Seattle 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE WAHPADM01 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital (Companied 10 & 20) 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tacoma 3,689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital 3,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-46080001-460801 3,061 FTE
NAT-TCR Wegmans Onondaga 031 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fountain View 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Port Jersey 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 569 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0148 - San Jose Ca Whse 358 FTE
NAT-SIZE Origlio Beverage 358 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Highlands at Wyomissing 358 FTE
NAT-SIZE thyssenkrupp Presta Danville, LLC 358 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: 2022, 2021. 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.