Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

N Star 260

Golden Valley, MN · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

N Star 260 runs at 273% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

N Star 260: 6.0 TCR = 273% of Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

N Star 260 safety composite

N Star 260 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

N Star 260: 0.0 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

N Star 260's TCR rose 12.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 12.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423450 · Golden Valley, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 273% of ind

  • DART 12.0 DART
  • RANK #18/21
  • PHOTO Fresno
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fresno (0.0 TCR gap)

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N Star 260 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows N Star 260 averages 6.0 TCR (273% of the Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

N Star 260 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=12 · BLS 2.2

Where N Star 260 falls in its industry

754 Dental equipment and supplies establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 21 Dental equipment and supplies employers in Minnesota.

N Star 260 (25 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 N Star 260
N Star 260 (25 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0

N Star 260 has fewer employees than the Dental equipment and supplies merchant w median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 12.0 12.0 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423450 · MN · Golden Valley

754 Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 115 employers in Golden Valley, MN · 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 Fresno 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henry Schein Dental San Jose Center 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Health- Overland Park Med 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR B26 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Hutchinson, MN 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Park Rapids Trucking 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Country Pork LLP 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN IPH 03-0110-10, 50, 51, 52, 970 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills (Corporate) 3,932 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Companies 1,413 FTE
CITY-NEAR HoneywellMN10 1,388 FTE
CITY-NEAR James Ford Bell R&D Center 1,000 FTE
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Dallastown 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Reiter Springfield - West Chester OH - DTI 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hillcreek Leasing, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Pointe of Huntington 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arrow Exterminators East Cobb 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minco Wind Energy 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kalamazoo 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashtabula 25 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: 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.