DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) · Minnesota

Southern Heights Dental

Name: Southern Heights Dental Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Faribault, MN · ~59 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.1
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Southern Heights Dental runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) workplace, earning a grade B.

Southern Heights Dental: 2.1 TCR = 56% of DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS 3.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Heights Dental safety composite

Southern Heights Dental scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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).

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Southern Heights Dental held a steady TCR band

Southern Heights Dental's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 56% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #4/29
PHOTO Family Dentist Tree
BOOK 6y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Family Dentist Tree (0.0 TCR gap)

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X-Ray Dental S

2.2
Sturtevant

2.2
This site

2.1
Family Dentist

2.1
Solomon Family

2

What this shows Southern Heights Dental averages 2.1 TCR (56% of the DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS benchmark).

Southern Heights Dental TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.8

Where Southern Heights Dental falls in its industry

81 DDSs' (doctors of dental surge establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 29 DDSs' (doctors of dental surge employers in Minnesota.

Southern Heights Dental (59 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Southern Heights Dental has more employees than the DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) office 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
2024	0.0	0.0	0
2023	1.9	0.0	1
2022	4.5	4.5	2
2021	4.1	2.0	2
2020	2.3	0.0	1
2017	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621210 · MN · Faribault

81 DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 92 employers in Faribault, MN · 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	Family Dentist Tree	ROCHESTER, MN	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	X-Ray Dental Staffing Techs of Arizona, Inc.	TUCSON, AZ	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sturtevant	STURTEVANT, WI	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Solomon Family Dentistry	SUMMERVILLE, SC	2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	JDR Technologies, LLC	COLUMBUS	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	7580 Commerce Lane NE, Fridley, MN 55432	FRIDLEY	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Advantage Seamless, Inc.	BRAINERD	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sauk Rapids, MN (All State)	SAUK RAPIDS	59 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Faribault Plant	Faribault	736 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Minnesota Correctional Facility-Faribault	Faribault	633 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Daikin Applied South	Faribault	563 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Faribault Foods LLC	Faribault	452 FTE
NAT-TCR	Vancouver WA Yard	Vancouver, WA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pic Corp	Linden, NJ	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Adams Elementary School	Creal Springs, IL	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	S03783 - Phoenix Hauling - North	Phoenix, AZ	2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Door County Coffee	Sturgeon Bay, WI	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Coventry Grammar School	Coventry, CT	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Universal Strap Inc	Jackson, WI	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Environmental Services, Inc	South Windsor, CT	59 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, 2021, 2020, 2017. 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.