Intercity and Rural Bus Transportation · Colorado

970 Grand Valley Transit

Grand Junction, CO · ~56 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

970 Grand Valley Transit runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Intercity and Rural Bus Transportation workplace, earning a grade C.

970 Grand Valley Transit: 4.9 TCR = 109% of Intercity and Rural Bus Transportation BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

970 Grand Valley Transit safety composite

970 Grand Valley Transit scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2023→2024

970 Grand Valley Transit injury rate improved

970 Grand Valley Transit's TCR fell 5.9 from 7.8 in 2023 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.8 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · Grand Junction, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 109% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Mass Transportation …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mass Transportation Authority (0.0 TCR gap)

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970 Grand Valley Transit in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 970 Grand Valley Transit averages 4.9 TCR (109% of the Intercity and Rural Bus Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

970 Grand Valley Transit TCR series: 2023=7.8 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where 970 Grand Valley Transit falls in its industry

332 Intercity and Rural Bus Transp establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Intercity and Rural Bus Transp employers in Colorado.

970 Grand Valley Transit (56 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 970 Grand Valley Transit
970 Grand Valley Transit (56 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

970 Grand Valley Transit has fewer employees than the Intercity and Rural Bus Transportation 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 Fatalities
2024 1.9 1.9 0 1 0
2023 7.8 3.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · CO · Grand Junction

332 Intercity and Rural Bus Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 233 employers in Grand Junction, CO · 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 Mass Transportation Authority 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 52660 Springfield 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AppalCART 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 55820 Denver North 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE COLORADO PRODUCT SERVICES 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gateway Service Center-148 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRI Pointe Homes CO 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glacier Construction Co., Inc 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital 2,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center 2,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Hospital 1,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 609 27 1/2 Road 641 FTE
NAT-TCR Aspirus Iron River Hospital 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Brewer LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR New Castle Branch 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Courtyard at Oshkosh 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Superior Roofing Services 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quaddra Logistics LLC 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE realwheels corporation 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Latta Road Nursing Home East 56 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.