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James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2168

Name: James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2168 Workplace Safety Data
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Irvine, CA · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2168 runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dental laboratories workplace, earning a grade B.

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2168: 2.3 TCR = 69% of Dental laboratories BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2168 safety composite

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2168 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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 2168: 3.5 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.48× in 2020

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2168's TCR rose 2.2 from 3.5 in 2017 to 5.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.48× 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 2.3 · 69% of ind

DART 5.7 DART
RANK #10/21
PHOTO Crown World - Louisv…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crown World - Louisville (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.3
Crown World -

2.3
DDS - Florida

2.3
NDX MALLOW TRU

2.3
NDX Green

2.3

What this shows James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2168 averages 2.3 TCR (69% of the Dental laboratories BLS benchmark).

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2168 TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2168 falls in its industry

184 Dental laboratories establishments

Safer than 57% 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 #10 safest of 21 Dental laboratories employers in California.

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - Mich 2168 (26 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 2168 has fewer 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	5.7	5.7	1
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	3.5	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	Crown World - Louisville	LOUISVILLE, KY	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DDS - Florida	TAMPA, FL	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NDX MALLOW TRU DENTAL STUDIO	LEES SUMMIT, MO	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NDX Green	HEBER SPRINGS, AR	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	HAULING & TRAILER SHOP	ARVIN	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Seasholtz Co., LLC	FRESNO	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Redwood Valley Vineyards	REDWOOD VALLEY	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	North Central Coast Vineyards	SOLEDAD	26 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	The CORE Group- Georgia	Atlanta, GA	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Colonial Haven and Courts	Beemer, NE	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Crown World - Louisville	Louisville, KY	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	PVI Industries LLC	Fort Worth, TX	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	TRC Landscape Services, Inc.	Newbury, OH	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Northwest St. Clair County Fire Fire Protection District	Belleville, IL	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	St Paul Mn Corps	St Paul, MN	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	IFS Coatings, Inc. (Oklahoma)	Ardmore, OK	26 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.