Dental laboratories · New York

Great Lakes Dental Technologies

Tonawanda, NY · ~224 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Dental Technologies runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Dental laboratories workplace, earning a grade C.

Great Lakes Dental Technologies: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Dental laboratories BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Dental Technologies safety composite

Great Lakes Dental Technologies scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Great Lakes Dental Technologies: 1.9 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

Great Lakes Dental Technologies's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.9 in 2018 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339116 · Tonawanda, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO NDX LORDS DENTAL STU…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~224 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NDX LORDS DENTAL STUDIO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Dental Technologies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Dental Technologies averages 2.7 TCR (83% of the Dental laboratories BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Dental Technologies TCR series: 2018=1.9 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=4.7 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Lakes Dental Technologies falls in its industry

184 Dental laboratories establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Dental laboratories employers in New York.

Great Lakes Dental Technologies (224 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 Great Lakes Dental Technologies
Great Lakes Dental Technologies (224 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Great Lakes Dental Technologies has more employees than the Dental laboratories 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 3.3 1.9 6 1 0
2022 4.7 3.1 9 0 0
2021 2.5 1.0 5 0 0
2020 2.4 1.8 4 0 0
2019 1.7 1.7 4 0 0
2018 1.9 0.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339116 · NY · Tonawanda

184 Dental laboratories employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 134 employers in Tonawanda, NY · 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 LORDS DENTAL STUDIO 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barksdale Dental Lab 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDX HEUMANN TOPEKA 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00330 - Hermanson 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE New York, NY HVAC 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cookies United LLC 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gutchess Lumber Company 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essity Professional Hygiene, South Glens Falls 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tonawanda Engine Plant 1,623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Praxair Technology Center 1,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linde Inc. 986 FTE
NAT-TCR Broooks Running Company 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Stonhard 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 03 - Columbus 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Frary Lumber - Sterling 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tetra Pak Materials LLC 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE MLN Company 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hussung Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE On-Target Supplies & Logistics, Ltd. 224 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.