Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena

Name: Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Alpena, MI · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.6
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade B.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena: 2.6 TCR = 59% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena safety composite

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.3

2023→2024

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena injury rate improved

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena's TCR fell 5.3 from 5.3 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Alpena, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 59% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #19/74
PHOTO Palmer Bus Service o…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Palmer Bus Service of Round Lake-Brewster Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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163519-Washing

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2046 WEST REGI

2.6

What this shows Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena averages 2.6 TCR (59% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena TCR series: 2023=5.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena (27 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Alpena has fewer employees than the Bus operation, school and employee median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2023	5.3	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Alpena

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 59 employers in Alpena, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Palmer Bus Service of Round Lake-Brewster Inc.	BREWSTER, MN	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	3082 CENTRAL REGION-OTTUMWA	OTTUMWA, IA	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	163519-Washington \| CT \| 163519	WASHINGTON DEPOT, CT	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2046 WEST REGION-STEILACOOM WA	LAKEWOOD, WA	2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Badger Evergreen Nursery LLC	ALLEGAN	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	K Drive Greenhouse Co	EAST LEROY	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (MO)	BYRON CENTER	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Luurtsema Sales Inc.	JENISON	27 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MidMichigan Medical Center - Alpena	Alpena	857 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northeast MI Community Mental Health Authority	Alpena	349 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 2358	Alpena	314 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2358	Alpena	299 FTE
NAT-TCR	Hawaii	Honolulu, HI	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Roxtec Inc	Tulsa, OK	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	INTECH Construction, LLC	Philadelphia, PA	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	DCHM Comfort Inn and Suites Dover	Dover, OH	2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	JTM Products	Solon, OH	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kustom Signals, Inc. - Lenexa	Lenexa, KS	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Compactor Management Company, LLC	Union City, CA	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Valley Concrete & Construction	Bernardston, MA	27 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. 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.