Dental laboratories · Illinois

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location

Ottawa, IL · ~75 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dental laboratories workplace, earning a grade B.

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Dental laboratories BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location safety composite

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−0.6

2022→2024

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location injury rate improved

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.0 in 2022 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.0 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339116 · Ottawa, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #4/11
  • PHOTO DSG Creative
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DSG Creative (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Dental laboratories BLS benchmark).

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

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location TCR series: 2022=2 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location falls in its industry

184 Dental laboratories establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 11 Dental laboratories employers in Illinois.

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location (75 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location
Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location (75 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Norris Location 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2023 3.1 1.6 2 0 0
2022 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339116 · IL · Ottawa

184 Dental laboratories employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 67 employers in Ottawa, IL · 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 Creative 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ProSmiles Dental Studio 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OBDL Corvallis 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Image Dental Laboratory Inc. 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kankakee Nursery Co. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenhouse 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois American Water (Chicago Metro) 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haier Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 624 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaSalle County 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00000036 0036 OTTAWA DC 415 FTE
NAT-TCR Elf's Landscaping, Inc 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR GEA Process Engineering Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hitachi Astemo Berea Plant 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oil Creek Plastics 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yankee Sheet Metal 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpine Insulation Menomonee Falls 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE PT Foundry 75 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.