Bus line, local (except mixed mode) · Washington

Ben Franklin Transit

Richland, WA · ~360 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Ben Franklin Transit runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus line, local (except mixed mode) workplace, earning a grade C.

Ben Franklin Transit: 4.5 TCR = 99% of Bus line, local (except mixed mode) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ben Franklin Transit safety composite

Ben Franklin Transit scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Ben Franklin Transit: 0.0 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2024

Ben Franklin Transit's TCR rose 6.3 from 0.0 in 2021 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · Richland, WA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 99% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO 2662-7053
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~360 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2662-7053 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ben Franklin Transit in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ben Franklin Transit averages 4.5 TCR (99% of the Bus line, local (except mixed mode) BLS benchmark).

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

Ben Franklin Transit TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=7 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Ben Franklin Transit falls in its industry

332 Bus line, local (except mixed establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Bus line, local (except mixed employers in Washington.

Ben Franklin Transit (360 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Ben Franklin Transit
Ben Franklin Transit (360 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Ben Franklin Transit has more employees than the Bus line, local (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 Fatalities
2024 6.3 6.0 18 2 0
2023 7.0 6.4 21 2 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · WA · Richland

332 Bus line, local (except mixed mode) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 83 employers in Richland, WA · 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 2662-7053 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Erie Transit 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keolis Transit America Hesperia 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6091-132 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DRAPER VALLEY MAIN OFFICE 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oxarc, Inc. 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2037 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0747 - WOODINVILLE WA WHSE 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000320 4,577 FTE
CITY-NEAR WA566 KADLEC REGIONAL MEDICAL CTR-RICHLAND HR 2,150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waste Treatment Completion Company (WTCC) 1,978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) 673 FTE
NAT-TCR Clarendon County 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dynapower Company 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntsinger Farms, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Flex-N-Gate Texas, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE East Los Angeles Doctors Hospital 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADESA Boston 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oklahoma City, OK 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sundyne LLC 360 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.