Bus operation, school and employee · New York

20055 Walden Ave

Cheektowaga, NY · ~118 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

20055 Walden Ave runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade A.

20055 Walden Ave: 1.6 TCR = 36% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

20055 Walden Ave safety composite

20055 Walden Ave scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

20055 Walden Ave: 1.4 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2024

20055 Walden Ave's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.4 in 2021 to 1.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Cheektowaga, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 36% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #39/158
  • PHOTO Dean Transportation,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton (0.0 TCR gap)

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20055 Walden Ave in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 20055 Walden Ave averages 1.6 TCR (36% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

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

20055 Walden Ave TCR series: 2021=1.4 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 4.5

Where 20055 Walden Ave falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 158 Bus operation, school and empl employers in New York.

20055 Walden Ave (118 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 20055 Walden Ave
20055 Walden Ave (118 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

20055 Walden Ave has more employees than the Bus operation, school and employee median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2024 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2021 1.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · NY · Cheektowaga

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 150 employers in Cheektowaga, NY · 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 Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3074 WEST REGION-MT PLEASANT TX 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DATTCO - Plainfield 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custer's Garage Inc. 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crist Bros. Orchards, Inc. 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lamb FArms Inc 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE NYSEG Binghamton ECC 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Nyack, NY 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - Buffalo 1,643 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Force 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sisters of Charity Hospital, St. Joseph Campus 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visiting Nurses Association - Erie 407 FTE
NAT-TCR United Fire Equipment Company 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Fremont General Government Includes CAO, CMO, HR, IT, Finance, City Clerk, Econ. Dev. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center - EVS 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Utilities, Field Operations 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Tennessee Healthcare-Milan Hospital 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oakwood Energy Management 118 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, 2021. 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.