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

Valley Dental Group

Golden Valley, MN · ~47 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Dental Group runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) workplace, earning a grade D.

Valley Dental Group: 5.4 TCR = 142% of DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Dental Group safety composite

Valley Dental Group scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Valley Dental Group: 5.0 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Valley Dental Group's TCR rose 1.5 from 5.0 in 2018 to 6.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621210 · Golden Valley, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 142% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/29
  • PHOTO Eastern Iowa Dental …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eastern Iowa Dental Clinic (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Dental Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Dental Group averages 5.4 TCR (142% of the DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Dental Group TCR series: 2018=5 · 2019=10 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Valley Dental Group falls in its industry

81 DDSs' (doctors of dental surge establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 29 DDSs' (doctors of dental surge employers in Minnesota.

Valley Dental Group (47 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 Valley Dental Group
Valley Dental Group (47 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Valley Dental Group has more employees than the DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) office median and a higher 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2021 6.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 10.0 0.0 2 0 0
2018 5.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621210 · MN · Golden Valley

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 · 115 employers in Golden Valley, MN · 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 Eastern Iowa Dental Clinic 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake County Dental 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metro Dentalcare-Burnsville Ridges 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howard 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Staples 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Campbell 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willmar Live Haul 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills (Corporate) 3,932 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Companies 1,413 FTE
CITY-NEAR HoneywellMN10 1,388 FTE
CITY-NEAR James Ford Bell R&D Center 1,000 FTE
NAT-TCR Springs of Escondido, The 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Flight Division - 1790 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rivian Automotive, LLC - Normal 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Catalina Finer Food Corp 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Custer Plant 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drew-Hamilton Houses 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Interim HealthCare - South Portland 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE FRT - Pharr 47 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.