City bus services (except mixed mode) · California

Big Blue Bus

Santa Monica, CA · ~490 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Blue Bus runs at 385% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City bus services (except mixed mode) workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Blue Bus: 17.3 TCR = 385% of City bus services (except mixed mode) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Blue Bus safety composite

Big Blue Bus scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Big Blue Bus: 17.1 → 17.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2018

Big Blue Bus's TCR rose 0.4 from 17.1 in 2017 to 17.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · Santa Monica, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.3 · 385% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #62/65
  • PHOTO SETD Bus Barn
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 170 inj
  • SIZE ~490 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SETD Bus Barn (0.7 TCR gap)

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Big Blue Bus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Blue Bus averages 17.3 TCR (385% of the City bus services (except mixed mode) BLS benchmark).

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

Big Blue Bus TCR series: 2017=17.1 · 2018=17.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Big Blue Bus falls in its industry

332 City bus services (except mixe establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 65 City bus services (except mixe employers in California.

Big Blue Bus (490 employees, TCR 17.3) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Big Blue Bus
Big Blue Bus (490 employees, TCR 17.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Big Blue Bus has more employees than the City bus services (except mixed mode) median and a higher 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
2018 17.6 8.9 87 0 0
2017 17.1 6.4 83 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · CA · Santa Monica

332 City bus services (except mixed mode) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 133 employers in Santa Monica, 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 SETD Bus Barn 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4700 LANDOVER BUS FACILITY 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-7050 20.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Santa Rosa - Transit 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE USA BERRY FARMS 490 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anlin Industries 490 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Atomics - Poway - A35 490 FTE
STATE-SIZE CASNR - SAN RAMON 490 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hulu-DMED 1,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000735 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA173 PROVIDENCE SAINT JOHN S HEALTH CTR-SANTA 1,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Monica 919 FTE
NAT-TCR PT527 - York, PA Core 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Moran Nursing and Rehabilitation 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4598-Rtc Orlando South 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 330315-Atlantic Highlands Po 17.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Goodrich - Cargo Systems 490 FTE
NAT-SIZE The RMR Group LLC 490 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARYZTA - Swedesboro 490 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conbraco Industries - Pearl Street 490 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: 2018, 2017. 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.