Bus bodies manufacturing · Georgia

Blue Bird Body Company

Fort Valley, GA · ~2,170 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Bird Body Company runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus bodies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Blue Bird Body Company: 3.4 TCR = 103% of Bus bodies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Bird Body Company safety composite

Blue Bird Body Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Blue Bird Body Company: 2.9 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2019

Blue Bird Body Company's TCR rose 1.0 from 2.9 in 2017 to 3.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Fort Valley, GA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 103% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #5/14
  • PHOTO IWS Sales
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 134 inj
  • SIZE ~2,170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IWS Sales (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blue Bird Body Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Bird Body Company averages 3.4 TCR (103% of the Bus bodies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Bird Body Company TCR series: 2017=2.9 · 2019=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Blue Bird Body Company falls in its industry

470 Bus bodies manufacturing establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 14 Bus bodies manufacturing employers in Georgia.

Blue Bird Body Company (2,170 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Bird Body Company
Blue Bird Body Company (2,170 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Blue Bird Body Company has more employees than the Bus bodies manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2019 3.9 1.8 74 8 0
2017 2.9 1.3 60 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · GA · Fort Valley

470 Bus bodies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 24 employers in Fort Valley, GA · 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 IWS Sales 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgan Truck Body LLC MTX 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VCM - Morley 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Matsu - Alabama 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE ATLANTA HUB (GAATL) 2,167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlanta Distribution 2,162 FTE
STATE-SIZE LOCATION 20001 2,160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - AGS1 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Orchards Management 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR PEARSON FARM 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Valley, Georgia 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Flavor Farms 129 FTE
NAT-TCR Harrison Burrowes Bridge Constructors, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR US MD Baltimore Plant 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 149 - Millville 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Smithfield Mason City 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Olive Branch 2,169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coty USLLC 2,168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Francis Downtown 2,172 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: 2019, 2017. 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.