DMDs' (doctors of dental medicine) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) · Minnesota

Northland Smiles

Deerwood, MN · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northland Smiles runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical DMDs' (doctors of dental medicine) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) workplace, earning a grade C.

Northland Smiles: 3.5 TCR = 93% of DMDs' (doctors of dental medicine) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northland Smiles safety composite

Northland Smiles scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.0

2018→2019

Northland Smiles injury rate improved

Northland Smiles's TCR fell 7.0 from 7.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621210 · Deerwood, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 93% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/29
  • PHOTO Boger Dental
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boger Dental (0.2 TCR gap)

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Northland Smiles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northland Smiles averages 3.5 TCR (93% of the DMDs' (doctors of dental medicine) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS benchmark).

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

Northland Smiles TCR series: 2018=7 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.8

Where Northland Smiles falls in its industry

81 DMDs' (doctors of dental medic establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 29 DMDs' (doctors of dental medic employers in Minnesota.

Northland Smiles (35 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Northland Smiles
Northland Smiles (35 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Northland Smiles has more employees than the DMDs' (doctors of dental medicine) offic median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.0 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621210 · MN · Deerwood

81 DMDs' (doctors of dental medicine) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 9 employers in Deerwood, 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 Boger Dental 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Streetsboro Dental Partners 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Matthew J Peterson DDS PA DBA Cambridge Dental Center 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Appleton 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dollymount 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scotch Prairie Farms LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Genex Farm Systems Melrose 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Dog Power Plant 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rice Lake Corporate Office 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rice Lake Construction Group 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ruttger's Bay Lake Resort 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1898 Management LLC dba Ruttger's Bay Lake Resort 90 FTE
NAT-TCR JBP Pocatello 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Robins AFB 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TI Group Automotive Systems LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Roanoke Service Building 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Miner Overhead Door Houston 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Shoals 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Markarian Family L.P. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bearon Manufacturing Inc 35 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.