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James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2154

Name: James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2154 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Irvine, CA · ~32 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2154 runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dental laboratories workplace, earning a grade B.

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2154: 2.6 TCR = 78% of Dental laboratories BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2154 safety composite

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2154 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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 2154: 3.3 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2020

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2154's TCR rose 3.8 from 3.3 in 2017 to 7.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 78% of ind

DART 3.5 DART
RANK #15/21
PHOTO NDX GREEN LABORATORIES
BOOK 4y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NDX GREEN LABORATORIES (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.6
NDX GREEN LABO

2.6
Artistic Denta

2.6
Fenton-Mae Lab

2.5
James R. Glide

2.5

What this shows James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2154 averages 2.6 TCR (78% of the Dental laboratories BLS benchmark).

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2154 TCR series: 2017=3.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=7 · BLS 3.3

Where James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2154 falls in its industry

184 Dental laboratories establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 21 Dental laboratories employers in California.

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2154 (32 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 2154 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
2020	7.0	3.5	2
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	3.3	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	NDX GREEN LABORATORIES	HEBER SPRINGS, AR	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Artistic Dental Laboratories, Inc. Bolingbrook Location	BOLINGBROOK, IL	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fenton-Mae Lab	FENTON, MO	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - BDL	IRVINE, CA	2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Schreiner Farms	WOODLAND	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	FIVE POINTS T.I.C.	FIVE POINTS	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	OFFICE	DELANO	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Brocchini Farms Inc.	RIPPON	32 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	AME Inc.	Elk River, MN	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Heneghan Wrecking Company, Inc.	Chicago, IL	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chase Pawtucket	Pawtucket, RI	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Landmark Signs, Inc.	Chesterton, IN	2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Plant 2	Oconto, WI	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Meridian Brick-Stanton-Meridian	Stanton, KY	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Courtyard by Marriott	Fort Mill, SC	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Homewood Suites by Hilton	West Des Moines, IA	32 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.