City bus services (except mixed mode) · Tennessee

Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority

Chattanooga, TN · ~216 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical City bus services (except mixed mode) workplace, earning a grade D.

Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority: 7.7 TCR = 170% of City bus services (except mixed mode) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority safety composite

Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority: 7.1 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2020

Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority's TCR rose 1.4 from 7.1 in 2016 to 8.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 170% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Sun Tran
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~216 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sun Tran (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority averages 7.7 TCR (170% 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

Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2018=7.3 · 2020=8.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority falls in its industry

332 City bus services (except mixe establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 City bus services (except mixe employers in Tennessee.

Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (216 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority
Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (216 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority 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
2020 8.5 4.3 14 2 0
2018 7.3 3.9 16 1 0
2016 7.1 3.6 12 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · TN · Chattanooga

332 City bus services (except mixed mode) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, TN · 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 Sun Tran 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Water Area Transportation 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Metropolitan Transportation Authority 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-7055 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation (Corporate) 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Servall, LLC - Termite/Pest Control/Gutters/Restoration 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant HW 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawker Powersource 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR The Wellington at North Bend Crossing 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Overhead Door Company of Reading, Pa (Rowens Enterprises) 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Osco Incorporated 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Winnebago Industries - Charles City 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE AgMart Produce IMMOKALEE SFL 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA.TUSTI.5 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch 216 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: 2020, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.