Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Safco Dental Supply

Buffalo Grove, IL · ~77 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Safco Dental Supply runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Safco Dental Supply: 1.4 TCR = 65% of Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Safco Dental Supply safety composite

Safco Dental Supply scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Safco Dental Supply: 0.0 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2023

Safco Dental Supply's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423450 · Buffalo Grove, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 65% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #13/43
  • PHOTO DUTCH OPHTHALMIC USA
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DUTCH OPHTHALMIC USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Safco Dental Supply in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Safco Dental Supply averages 1.4 TCR (65% of the Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Safco Dental Supply TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2019=5 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Safco Dental Supply falls in its industry

754 Dental equipment and supplies establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 43 Dental equipment and supplies employers in Illinois.

Safco Dental Supply (77 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 Safco Dental Supply
Safco Dental Supply (77 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Safco Dental Supply has more employees than the Dental equipment and supplies merchant w median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.1 3.1 2 0 0
2019 5.0 5.0 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423450 · IL · Buffalo Grove

754 Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Buffalo Grove, 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 DUTCH OPHTHALMIC USA 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Twin Med, LLC - Texas 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mentor Corporation 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 173 - PORTLAND OR FAS 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Albers Farm 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Facebook DKL 1 2 NEW 20126004 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Builtech Services, LLC. 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE William A. Randolph, Inc. 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Building Services, Inc. 2,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex - Buffalo Grove 1,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR BT Buffalo Grove 760 FTE
NAT-TCR Honor Rncho Station - Bld: 0434 - 15 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cell Business Systems 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Preserve at Briarcliffe 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Key Construction Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Buffalo, Ny 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid South Industrial, Inc. 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside Base - Bld: 0610 - 15 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tuls Dairy Butler County Dairy LLC 77 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.