Dental Laboratories · Minnesota

Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories

Falcon Heights, MN · ~95 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Dental Laboratories workplace, earning a grade A.

Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Dental Laboratories BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories safety composite

Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339116 · Falcon Heights, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/12
  • PHOTO CQC Dental Lab
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CQC Dental Lab (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Dental Laboratories BLS benchmark).

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

Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories falls in its industry

184 Dental Laboratories establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 12 Dental Laboratories employers in Minnesota.

Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories (95 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Twin Cities Laboratories
Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories (95 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories has more 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 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 3.1 3.1 2 0 0
2022 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339116 · MN · Falcon Heights

184 Dental Laboratories employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 6 employers in Falcon Heights, 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 CQC Dental Lab 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00235 - Ward 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDX PERRY AND YOUNG DENTAL LAB 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDX Continental 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE A.S. King Plant 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE White Bear Lake Service Center 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE ONE WAY WIRELESS CONSTRUCTION 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR SPIRE Credit Union 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR NDX Twin Cities 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Falcon Heights Elementary School 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR John A. Knutson & Co., PLLP 45 FTE
NAT-TCR 109 - Commerce 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 070 - Woodhaven 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City Hall 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR John Peter Smith Clinics - EVS 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hollister Super #2 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bell Minor Home 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Foundry LLC 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE WTA 71st Operations 95 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. 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.