Dental laboratories · Illinois

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Starfire Location

Name: Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Starfire Location Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ottawa, IL · ~142 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Starfire Location runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Dental laboratories workplace, earning a grade C.

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Starfire Location: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Dental laboratories BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Starfire Location safety composite

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Starfire Location scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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).

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Starfire Location: 1.7 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2024

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Starfire Location's TCR rose 1.7 from 1.7 in 2022 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

DART 0.8 DART
RANK #7/11
PHOTO Digitech
BOOK 3y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Digitech (0.0 TCR gap)

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NDX Dodd

3.2
This site

3.1
Digitech

3.1
NDX THOELE DEN

3.1
WEST COAST DEN

3.1

What this shows Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Starfire Location averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Dental laboratories BLS benchmark).

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Starfire Location TCR series: 2022=1.7 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.3

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

184 Dental laboratories establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Dental laboratories employers in Illinois.

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Starfire Location (142 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC - Starfire Location 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
2024	3.4	0.8	4
2023	4.3	0.9	5
2022	1.7	0.9	2

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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Digitech	MIAMI, FL	3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NDX THOELE DENTAL LABORATORY	ST CLOUD, MN	3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	WEST COAST DENTAL LABS	HAWTHORNE, CA	3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NDX Dodd	NEW CASTLE, DE	3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Ferrero USA Inc	CHICAGO	142 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rock Island Branch	ROCK ISLAND	142 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BioUrja Renewables, LLC	PEORIA	142 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ecolab US11	JOLIET	142 FTE
CITY-NEAR	OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center	Ottawa	624 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Saint Elizabeth Medical Center	Ottawa	581 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LaSalle County	Ottawa	500 FTE
CITY-NEAR	00000036 0036 OTTAWA DC	Ottawa	415 FTE
NAT-TCR	Horizon Electric Company	Farmington, MN	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nichols Nursery Inc	Newark, DE	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Anderson Power	Sterling, MA	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Construction	Oakland, CA	3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	OJ Insulation	Azusa, CA	142 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MI Profiles	Millersburg, PA	142 FTE
NAT-SIZE	413006-Williamstown \| NJ \| NJL-300	Williamstown, NJ	142 FTE
NAT-SIZE	South Pointe Rehabilitation & Care Center	Oklahoma City, OK	142 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.