Orthodontic appliances manufacturing · California

Carlsbad Ortho

Carlsbad, CA · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carlsbad Ortho runs at 295% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Orthodontic appliances manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Carlsbad Ortho: 9.8 TCR = 295% of Orthodontic appliances manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carlsbad Ortho safety composite

Carlsbad Ortho scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Carlsbad Ortho: 1.7 → 17.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 17.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.82× in 2022

Carlsbad Ortho's TCR rose 16.1 from 1.7 in 2021 to 17.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339114 · Carlsbad, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 295% of ind

  • DART 17.8 DART
  • RANK #18/19
  • PHOTO Garreco Heber Springs
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garreco Heber Springs (0.3 TCR gap)

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Carlsbad Ortho in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carlsbad Ortho averages 9.8 TCR (295% of the Orthodontic appliances manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Carlsbad Ortho TCR series: 2021=1.7 · 2022=17.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Carlsbad Ortho falls in its industry

111 Orthodontic appliances manufac establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 19 Orthodontic appliances manufac employers in California.

Carlsbad Ortho (70 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 Carlsbad Ortho
Carlsbad Ortho (70 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Carlsbad Ortho has fewer employees than the Orthodontic appliances manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 17.8 17.8 2 52 0
2021 1.7 1.7 3 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339114 · CA · Carlsbad

111 Orthodontic appliances manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 218 employers in Carlsbad, CA · 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 Garreco Heber Springs 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CDL 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision One Medical 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centrix, Inc. 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heritage Land Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ceballos Ag Services, Inc. 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRTHN 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE EW Merritt Farms 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific 2,234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legoland California Resort 2,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Sciences Solutions Group (LSG) Remote Employees 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Scott Memorial Health 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR US Foods Raleigh Division 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside Consolidated Lab 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Empire Distribution 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Food Giant #581 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manheim Louisville 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester (formerly Pachtech LLC) 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0034-0034-00874 70 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.