DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) · Ohio

Locust Dental Group

Akron, OH · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Locust Dental Group runs at 315% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) workplace, earning a grade F.

Locust Dental Group: 12.0 TCR = 315% of DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Locust Dental Group safety composite

Locust Dental Group scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Locust Dental Group: 5.3 → 18.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 18.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Locust Dental Group's TCR rose 13.3 from 5.3 in 2018 to 18.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621210 · Akron, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 315% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO DCT - Dental Clinics
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DCT - Dental Clinics (0.1 TCR gap)

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Locust Dental Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Locust Dental Group averages 12.0 TCR (315% of the DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS benchmark).

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

Locust Dental Group TCR series: 2018=5.3 · 2019=18.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Locust Dental Group falls in its industry

81 DDSs' (doctors of dental surge establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 DDSs' (doctors of dental surge employers in Ohio.

Locust Dental Group (22 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Locust Dental Group
Locust Dental Group (22 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Locust Dental Group has fewer employees than the DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) office median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 18.6 0.0 2 0 0
2018 5.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621210 · OH · Akron

81 DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, OH · 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 DCT - Dental Clinics 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patterson (16) 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gettysburg Dental Associates 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Catherine's Health Center Dental 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agri-Med OH LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid Ford Farm 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pheasant Run 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lucasville Farm 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Trinity Construction Products, Inc. 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Imerys Fused Minerals Niagara Falls, Inc. 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CNH_Fargo 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy LIFE of Massachussetts 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arthur Harris & Company 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colorado Office 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 844 - Scottsdale 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleveland Retail 22 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. 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.