Orthodontic appliance, custom made in dental laboratories · Georgia

Specialty Appliances, LLC

Cumming, GA · ~174 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Specialty Appliances, LLC runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Orthodontic appliance, custom made in dental laboratories workplace, earning a grade C.

Specialty Appliances, LLC: 3.1 TCR = 93% of Orthodontic appliance, custom made in dental laboratories BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Specialty Appliances, LLC safety composite

Specialty Appliances, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

−3.3

2017→2024

Specialty Appliances, LLC injury rate improved

Specialty Appliances, LLC's TCR fell 3.3 from 5.2 in 2017 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.2 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=4.1 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339116 · Cumming, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK P38
  • PHOTO R-Dent Dental Labora…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~174 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R-Dent Dental Laboratory, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Specialty Appliances, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Specialty Appliances, LLC averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the Orthodontic appliance, custom made in dental laboratories BLS benchmark).

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

Specialty Appliances, LLC TCR series: 2017=5.2 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=4.1 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Specialty Appliances, LLC falls in its industry

184 Orthodontic appliance, custom establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Specialty Appliances, LLC (174 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Specialty Appliances, LLC
Specialty Appliances, LLC (174 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Specialty Appliances, LLC has more employees than the Orthodontic appliance, custom made in de 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 1.9 1.3 3 0 0
2023 3.2 1.9 4 1 0
2022 1.9 1.9 3 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 3 0 0
2019 4.1 4.1 6 0 0
2018 2.7 2.0 4 0 0
2017 5.2 5.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339116 · GA · Cumming

184 Orthodontic appliance, custom made in dental laboratories employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 139 employers in Cumming, GA · 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 R-Dent Dental Laboratory, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Image Dental Arts Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WEST COAST DENTAL LABS 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDX THOELE DENTAL LABORATORY 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Network Cabling Infrastructure Inc. 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Estes Services 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valdosta Roll Facility 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Club Chef LLC - ATL 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northside Forsyth 4,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northside Hospital Forsyth 3,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cumming Plant 1,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods-Cumming 1,138 FTE
NAT-TCR Turlock Terminal 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Elite Growers, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CHAS1-DWH-CHARLESTON 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR WOM - Canemont 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vancrest of Delphos 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE TSCA 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casco Area Workshop 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Neck Saw Mfgrs Inc 174 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.