Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers · Minnesota
Patterson Corporate Headquarters
Mendota Heights, MN · ~783 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- A
- Excellent Safety Record
- 0.4
- Avg TCR
- 2.2
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Patterson Corporate Headquarters runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.
- A
- Excellent Safety Record
- 0.4
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2.2
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 2
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Patterson Corporate Headquarters's OSHA Total Case Rate of 0.4 to the Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark of 2.2 (16% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Patterson Corporate Headquarters's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.
Where Patterson Corporate Headquarters falls in its industry
934 Dental equipment and supplies establishmentsSafer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.
Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 24 Dental equipment and supplies employers in Minnesota.
Trend analysis for Patterson Corporate Headquarters
Between 2022 and 2024, Patterson Corporate Headquarters's Total Case Rate improved from 0.2 to 0.2 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 22% decrease across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 0.2, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 0.7, a spread of 0.5 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, Patterson Corporate Headquarters recorded 2 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 2 injuries, 2 illnesses shown on this page for Patterson Corporate Headquarters are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 423450 - Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,133,139 hours worked = 0.18 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Patterson Corporate Headquarters (this establishment) | 0.36 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Medical supplies merchant wholesalers industry avg | 2.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 423450 |
| Minnesota state avg (all industries) | 5.18 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Patterson Corporate Headquarters to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 2 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Patterson Corporate Headquarters's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 16% of the Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers benchmark, Patterson Corporate Headquarters reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.