Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek

Battle Creek, MI · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade A.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek: 1.4 TCR = 30% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek safety composite

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek: 0.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2024

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.0 in 2023 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 30% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #5/74
  • PHOTO BRANDYWINE CARBON TR…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BRANDYWINE CARBON TRANSPORTATION LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek averages 1.4 TCR (30% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

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

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek (40 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek
Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek (40 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Battle Creek 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 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Battle Creek

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 161 employers in Battle Creek, MI · 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 BRANDYWINE CARBON TRANSPORTATION LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR J&D's, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 20616 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 483002-Carnegie/PA Region Admin | PA | WP1-000 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shelbyville, MI 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan & Jerrys Pineview Greenhouse LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thumb Electric Cooperative of Michigan 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Denso Manufacturing of Michigan 2,702 FTE
CITY-NEAR BRONSON BATTLE CREEK 1,530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Battle Creek HQ Corporate Office 1,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR I I Stanley Co., Inc. 729 FTE
NAT-TCR Able Aerospace Services 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Specialty Machine Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR New Horizons Telecom, Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ADEP Group 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Doyle's Work Company, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ripaul Sorting 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Union Hills 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 220 40 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.