Dental Laboratories · Iowa

NDX Oral Arts Iowa

Dubuque, IA · ~66 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NDX Oral Arts Iowa runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dental Laboratories workplace, earning a grade D.

NDX Oral Arts Iowa: 5.0 TCR = 151% of Dental Laboratories BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NDX Oral Arts Iowa safety composite

NDX Oral Arts Iowa scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

NDX Oral Arts Iowa held a steady TCR band

NDX Oral Arts Iowa's TCR held near 0.2 from 5.9 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.9 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339116 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 151% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO DSG DAVIS
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DSG DAVIS (0.0 TCR gap)

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NDX Oral Arts Iowa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NDX Oral Arts Iowa averages 5.0 TCR (151% 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 Iowa TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where NDX Oral Arts Iowa falls in its industry

184 Dental Laboratories establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
NDX Oral Arts Iowa (66 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Iowa
NDX Oral Arts Iowa (66 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6

NDX Oral Arts Iowa has more 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2019 6.1 2.0 3 0 0
2018 3.9 0.0 2 0 0
2017 3.9 2.0 2 0 0
2016 5.9 2.0 3 0 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 DSG DAVIS 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williams Dental Laboratory, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Georgia Dental Laboratory 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDX nSequence 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa American Water 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE J & K Contracting LLC 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Union Trenching Inc. 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menefee Drywall Co. Inc. 66 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 Residence Inn Hammond 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Neoteric Cosmetics, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hackensack Meridian Health 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Flp, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Warrenton 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE PLT Construction Company, Inc. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Maries 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE County of Harnett-Administration 66 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, 2017, 2016. 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.