Orthodontic appliance, custom made in dental laboratories · New York

Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD

Tonawanda, NY · ~247 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Orthodontic appliance, custom made in dental laboratories workplace, earning a grade C.

Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Orthodontic appliance, custom made in dental laboratories BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD safety composite

Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2016→2017

Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD injury rate improved

Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD's TCR fell 1.9 from 4.2 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.2 · 2017=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO Qualident Dental Lab…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~247 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Qualident Dental Lab LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Orthodontic appliance, custom made in dental laboratories BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD falls in its industry

184 Orthodontic appliance, custom establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #9 safest of 10 Orthodontic appliance, custom employers in New York.

Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD (247 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD
Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD (247 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Great Lakes Orthodontics LTD has more employees than the Orthodontic appliance, custom made in de 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
2017 2.3 1.6 5 1 0
2016 4.2 2.8 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339116 · NY · Tonawanda

184 Orthodontic appliance, custom made in 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 Qualident Dental Lab LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDX AFFINITY DENTAL LAB 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDX NSEQUENCE CTR FOR ADV DENTISTRY 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DSG Great White 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elmer W. Davis, Inc 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skyline Windows LLC - New York 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPI Aerostructures Inc. 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE AngioDynamics, Inc. (Latham) 247 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 0065 - Odessa, TX 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Streamline Precision Contracting, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Busch Distributors Stateline 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ANCLB - Columbia SC 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S Whitman, Ma 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE UGN-Monroe 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advantage Logistics - Aurora 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dianne's Fine Desserts Newburyport 247 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.