Amalgams, dental, manufacturing · California

Zest Dental Solutions

Carlsbad, CA · ~157 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Zest Dental Solutions runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Amalgams, dental, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Zest Dental Solutions: 5.3 TCR = 160% of Amalgams, dental, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zest Dental Solutions safety composite

Zest Dental Solutions scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Zest Dental Solutions: 1.9 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.63× in 2020

Zest Dental Solutions's TCR rose 6.7 from 1.9 in 2019 to 8.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339114 · Carlsbad, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 160% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #16/19
  • PHOTO Hu-Friedy Des Plaines
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~157 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hu-Friedy Des Plaines (0.1 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · California employers → · Look up another →

Zest Dental Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zest Dental Solutions averages 5.3 TCR (160% of the Amalgams, dental, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Zest Dental Solutions TCR series: 2019=1.9 · 2020=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Zest Dental Solutions falls in its industry

111 Amalgams, dental, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 19 Amalgams, dental, manufacturin employers in California.

Zest Dental Solutions (157 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Zest Dental Solutions
Zest Dental Solutions (157 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Zest Dental Solutions has more employees than the Amalgams, dental, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2020 8.6 8.6 2 10 0
2019 1.9 1.9 0 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339114 · CA · Carlsbad

111 Amalgams, dental, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 218 employers in Carlsbad, CA · 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 Hu-Friedy Des Plaines 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR StarDental 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerr Corporation 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ortho Organizers 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE GloriAnn Farms Tracy 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaborTime Inc. 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE FOUR SEASONS PRODUCE PACKING COMPANY, INC. - CA 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kairos Power-Alameda 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific 2,234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legoland California Resort 2,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Sciences Solutions Group (LSG) Remote Employees 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 457 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ofa 98 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2003 - Jacksonville 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : FSD - Sioux Falls 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE C.J. Mahan Construction Company, LLC 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heartland of Marion 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE 84 Lawrence, Ny 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bartlett Cocke General Contractors (Central Texas Region) 157 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: 2020, 2019. 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.