Dental Laboratories · Iowa

Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory

Dubuque, IA · ~36 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dental Laboratories workplace, earning a grade B.

Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Dental Laboratories BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory safety composite

Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.0

2020→2024

Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory injury rate improved

Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.0 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339116 · Dubuque, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P69
  • PHOTO 00960 - Troy Product…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 00960 - Troy Production (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory averages 1.9 TCR (56% of the Dental Laboratories BLS benchmark).

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

Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory TCR series: 2020=3 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory falls in its industry

184 Dental Laboratories establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory (36 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory
Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory (36 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Ndx Oral Arts Dental Laboratory 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.9 2.9 0 1 0
2020 3.0 3.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339116 · IA · Dubuque

184 Dental Laboratories employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, IA · 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 00960 - Troy Production 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00520 - ADL 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peebles Prosthetics Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDX Peterman 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE ALGONA MARKET SWINE MANAGEMENT 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butler County Rural Electric Cooperative 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Algona Municipal Utilities 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterloo Water Works 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR Montell Fabrication and Rebuild LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Perfetto Contracting Co. Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Crescent Park Corporation C-10 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Park West 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ndx Mallow Tru Dental Studio 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ndx Thayer Dental Lab 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE PDF Seal LLC 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE S03163 - ND Bismarck 36 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.