Dental equipment and instruments manufacturing · Illinois

Hu-Friedy Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~354 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hu-Friedy Chicago runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dental equipment and instruments manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hu-Friedy Chicago: 2.1 TCR = 62% of Dental equipment and instruments manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hu-Friedy Chicago safety composite

Hu-Friedy Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Hu-Friedy Chicago: 0.6 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2019

Hu-Friedy Chicago's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.6 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339114 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Oratech
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~354 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oratech (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hu-Friedy Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hu-Friedy Chicago averages 2.1 TCR (62% of the Dental equipment and instruments manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hu-Friedy Chicago TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Hu-Friedy Chicago falls in its industry

111 Dental equipment and instrumen establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Dental equipment and instrumen employers in Illinois.

Hu-Friedy Chicago (354 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Hu-Friedy Chicago
Hu-Friedy Chicago (354 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Hu-Friedy Chicago has more employees than the Dental equipment and instruments manufac median and a lower 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
2019 3.0 1.2 9 1 0
2018 2.6 0.8 10 0 0
2016 0.6 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339114 · IL · Chicago

111 Dental equipment and instruments manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 Oratech 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hiossen, Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kulzer LLC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Microbrush 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE ORD - DHL 354 FTE
STATE-SIZE YMCA OF SPRINGFIELD 354 FTE
STATE-SIZE Village of Oak Park 354 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kroeschell, Inc. 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Hillyard Sioux Falls 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Volunteer Pallets 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 2708 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0020 1781 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ace Asphalt 354 FTE
NAT-SIZE MTD - Leitchfield 354 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medico Industries Inc. 354 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monterey Mushrooms Zellwood 354 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.