Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) · Texas

55424 Houston Fixed Route

Name: 55424 Houston Fixed Route Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Houston, TX · ~423 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.0
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

55424 Houston Fixed Route runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) workplace, earning a grade C.

55424 Houston Fixed Route: 4.0 TCR = 88% of Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

55424 Houston Fixed Route safety composite

55424 Houston Fixed Route scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% 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).

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers
DART rate: B 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

55424 Houston Fixed Route: 3.5 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2023

55424 Houston Fixed Route's TCR rose 0.9 from 3.5 in 2019 to 4.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 88% of ind

DART 1.7 DART
RANK #7/13
PHOTO 6091-593
BOOK 5y book
INJ 86 inj
SIZE ~423 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6091-593 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows 55424 Houston Fixed Route averages 4.0 TCR (88% of the Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) BLS benchmark).

55424 Houston Fixed Route TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=4.4 · BLS 4.5

Where 55424 Houston Fixed Route falls in its industry

332 Bus transit systems (except mi establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 13 Bus transit systems (except mi employers in Texas.

55424 Houston Fixed Route (423 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

55424 Houston Fixed Route has more employees than the Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2023	4.4	1.7	21	0
2022	1.8	0.7	8	0
2021	5.4	4.0	22	1
2020	4.8	2.1	21	2
2019	3.5	2.0	14	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · TX · Houston

332 Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	6091-593	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	TMR - Toms	TOMS RIVER, NJ	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Waukesha Metro Transit Professional Transit Management of Waukesha	WAUKESHA, WI	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Ames - CyRide	AMES, IL	4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Channell Commercial Corporation	ROCKWALL	423 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Nucor Steel Jewett TX	JEWETT	423 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ply Gem Windows	BRYAN	423 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Filtration : Mineral Wells	MINERAL WELLS	423 FTE
CITY-NEAR	IAH IAH	Houston	11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR	IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices	Houston	10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6925-IAH	Houston	9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center	Houston	8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR	Columbus NW Svc Ctr	Dublin, OH	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wells Fargo CIC Management Office	Charlotte, NC	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	4001 Misericordia University	Dallas, PA	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Clarion Bathware Shippenville	Shippenville, PA	4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Smyth Automotive, Inc.	Cincinnati, OH	423 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mondi Jackson	Jackson, MO	423 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Stevenson Drive	Springfield, IL	423 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Monogram Meat Snacks LLC	Chandler, MN	423 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.