Dental laboratories · California

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center

Name: James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center Workplace Safety Data
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Irvine, CA · ~277 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Dental laboratories workplace, earning a grade A.

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center: 1.0 TCR = 32% of Dental laboratories BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center safety composite

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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).

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center: 0.4 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2020

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.4 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339116 · Irvine, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 32% of ind

DART 0.9 DART
RANK #4/21
PHOTO Ottawa Dental Labora…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~277 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Greendale Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tetra Dynamics

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Friendship Den

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This site

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Ottawa Dental

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Precision Dent

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What this shows James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center averages 1.0 TCR (32% of the Dental laboratories BLS benchmark).

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center TCR series: 2017=0.4 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center falls in its industry

184 Dental laboratories establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 21 Dental laboratories employers in California.

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center (277 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Dupont center has more employees than the Dental laboratories median and a lower 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
2020	0.9	0.9	2
2019	1.7	1.4	6
2018	1.1	0.8	3
2017	0.4	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339116 · CA · Irvine

184 Dental laboratories employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Greendale Location	GREENDALE, WI	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Precision Dental Laboratories	FARGO, ND	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tetra Dynamics	WEST BABYLON, NY	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Friendship Dental Laboratories, LLC	BALTIMORE, MD	1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	GAR BENNETT LLC	REEDLEY	277 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BYRD HARVEST INC	GUADALUPE	277 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DAVID GONZALEZ	SANGER	277 FTE
STATE-SIZE	C&C Harvesting, Inc.	LINDSAY	277 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UC Irvine	Irvine	16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CA-10	Irvine	4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Edwards Lifesciences	Irvine	4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine	Irvine	3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR	Tank Pro, Inc	Northport, AL	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Par Pharmaceutical	Chestnut Ridge, NY	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Polymer Group, INC	Benson, NC	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Municipal Electric Utillity	Hopkinsville, KY	1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Winston Office	Winston-Salem, NC	277 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Meijer store 70	Woodhaven, MI	277 FTE
NAT-SIZE	WC Westerville	Westerville, OH	277 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Plant 24	Rabun Gap, GA	277 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.