Tour operators (i.e., arranging and assembling tours) · California

Backroads

Berkeley, CA · ~178 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Backroads runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Tour operators (i.e., arranging and assembling tours) workplace, earning a grade A.

Backroads: 1.2 TCR = 46% of Tour operators (i.e., arranging and assembling tours) BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Backroads safety composite

Backroads scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 60% 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

−0.8

2018→2024

Backroads injury rate improved

Backroads's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.3 in 2018 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.3 · 2019=1.0 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561520 · Berkeley, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P60
  • PHOTO Magical Cruise Compa…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Magical Cruise Company, Ltd. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Backroads in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Backroads averages 1.2 TCR (46% of the Tour operators (i.e., arranging and assembling tours) BLS benchmark).

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

Backroads TCR series: 2018=1.3 · 2019=1 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Backroads falls in its industry

10 Tour operators (i.e., arrangin establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Backroads (178 employees, TCR 1.2) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 181 employees and a TCR of 2.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 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 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Village Travel Springfield, MOMagical Cruise Company, Ltd.Village Travel WichitaBackroads Utah, Inc.Village Travel Oklahoma City, OKVillage Travel TulsaBackroads
Backroads (178 employees, TCR 1.2) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 181 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Backroads has fewer employees than the Tour operators (i.e., arranging and asse median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2020 3.2 2.1 1 2 0
2019 1.0 0.0 2 0 0
2018 1.3 0.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561520 · CA · Berkeley

10 Tour operators (i.e., arranging and assembling tours) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 120 employers in Berkeley, 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 Magical Cruise Company, Ltd. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village Travel Tulsa 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village Travel Springfield, MO 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scenic Safaris 0.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greenheart Farms, Inc. 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grape Valley Contracting 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marmol Radziner, An Architecture Corporation 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.E. O'Neil Construction Co. of California 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Berkeley 22,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH) 1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley, CA 1,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Horizon 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lima Memorial Health System-Wapak 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wincom, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ACM Services, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ethox Chemicals, LLC 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Higbee Lancoms LP 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales Group 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vineland Plant 178 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.