Dental laboratories · California

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142

Irvine, CA · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142 runs at 260% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dental laboratories workplace, earning a grade F.

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142: 8.6 TCR = 260% of Dental laboratories BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142 safety composite

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 - Mich 2142: 3.2 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2020

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142's TCR rose 8.7 from 3.2 in 2017 to 11.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339116 · Irvine, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 260% of ind

  • DART 11.8 DART
  • RANK #21/21
  • PHOTO Joanna K. Mulder
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Joanna K. Mulder (0.3 TCR gap)

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James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142 averages 8.6 TCR (260% of the Dental laboratories BLS benchmark).

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

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142 TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=10.7 · 2020=11.8 · BLS 3.3

Where James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142 falls in its industry

184 Dental laboratories establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142 (18 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142
James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142 (18 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2142 has fewer 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
2020 11.8 11.8 1 0 0
2019 10.7 10.7 1 0 0
2018 8.7 0.0 2 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Joanna K. Mulder 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steve's Precision Dental Laboratory - Kansas 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colonial Lab 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDX H and O 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henry Hibino Farms LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE BATAVIA, INC. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gold Coast Farms 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE HM.CLAUSE Davis East Research Station 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine 16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-10 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Lifesciences 4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR Transportation Department 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AmeriCare Plus - Charlottesville-Fishersville 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vox Nutrition 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : GTF - Great Falls 8.6 TCR

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.