Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City

Bay City, MI · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City runs at 257% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade F.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City: 11.6 TCR = 257% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City safety composite

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−5.0

2023→2024

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City injury rate improved

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City's TCR fell 5.0 from 14.1 in 2023 to 9.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=14.1 · 2024=9.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Bay City, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 257% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #73/74
  • PHOTO Freetown-Lakeville
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Freetown-Lakeville (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City averages 11.6 TCR (257% 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. - Bay City TCR series: 2023=14.1 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #73 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City (51 employees, TCR 11.6) 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. - Bay City
Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City (51 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Bay City has fewer employees than the Bus operation, school and employee median and a higher 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 9.1 6.0 3 0 0
2023 14.1 10.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Bay City

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 138 employers in Bay City, 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 Freetown-Lakeville 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 483019-Williamsport | PA | KBS-750 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CH Services 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-4043 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jack Pine Farms, LLC 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay County Waste Water Treatment Plant 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner Electric Service, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillsdale County Road Commission 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLaren Bay Region 1,858 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay Medical Center INC 1,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay City Factory 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay City Components 421 FTE
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Palm Bay 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Idbos - Boise Gateway 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Quick Trip Delivery LLC 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Zebulon House 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elroy Health Services 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hygieia Biological Laboratories 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Builders 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairhaven 51 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.