Bus operation, school and employee · Tennessee

20849- South Memphis

Memphis, TN · ~100 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

20849- South Memphis runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade B.

20849- South Memphis: 2.4 TCR = 53% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

20849- South Memphis safety composite

20849- South Memphis scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

20849- South Memphis: 2.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.6× in 2024

20849- South Memphis's TCR rose 3.0 from 2.0 in 2021 to 5.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Memphis, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 53% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #2/21
  • PHOTO location 20628
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: location 20628 (0.0 TCR gap)

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20849- South Memphis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 20849- South Memphis averages 2.4 TCR (53% 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

20849- South Memphis TCR series: 2021=2 · 2023=0 · 2024=5 · BLS 4.5

Where 20849- South Memphis falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 21 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Tennessee.

20849- South Memphis (100 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 20849- South Memphis
20849- South Memphis (100 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

20849- South Memphis 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 5.0 3.8 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · TN · Memphis

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 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 location 20628 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 12728 Hattiesburg 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawrence First Student 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student, Jefferson City, MO 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE ATHENS UTILITIES BOARD 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earthadelic Enterprises, LLC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clayton Supply of Westmoreland 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE LyondellBasell Jackson Plant 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Tompkins Houses 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cooper Park 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stewart's Electric Motor Works Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Glazers Beer And Beverage North Little Rock 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frodo baking company LLC 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wellbridge of Fenton 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waco Svc Ctr 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas (Sw) 100 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, 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.