Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Clare

Name: Dean Transportation, Inc. - Clare Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Clare, MI · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 7.4
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Clare runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Clare: 7.4 TCR = 164% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Clare safety composite

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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers
DART rate: F 9.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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. - Clare: 5.0 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2024

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Clare's TCR rose 4.7 from 5.0 in 2023 to 9.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Clare, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 164% of ind

DART 9.7 DART
RANK #62/74
PHOTO DOT Clarksburg Trans…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DOT Clarksburg Transportation (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.4
DOT Clarksburg

7.4
DATTCO - East

7.4
2662-4125

7.4
2662-4068

7.4

What this shows Dean Transportation, Inc. - Clare averages 7.4 TCR (164% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Clare TCR series: 2023=5 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 4.5

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

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Clare (29 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Clare 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	9.7	9.7	2	0	0
2023	5.0	5.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Clare

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 27 employers in Clare, 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	DOT Clarksburg Transportation	CLARKSBURG, MD	7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DATTCO - East Hartford	EAST HARTFORD, CT	7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2662-4125	WYANDOTTE, MI	7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2662-4068	MEMPHIS, TN	7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (IN)	BYRON CENTER	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Great Lakes Packing Co. Hart	HART	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Riveridge Cider	GRANT	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	New Covert Generating Company	COVERT	29 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MidMichigan Medical Center-Clare	Clare	241 FTE
CITY-NEAR	StageRight	Clare	226 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northern Logistics Inc.	Clare	205 FTE
CITY-NEAR	JRGO, LLC	Clare	148 FTE
NAT-TCR	ABF Freight 080	Oklahoma City, OK	7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nursing and Rehabilitation at the Mansion	Sunbury, PA	7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Shay	Culver City, CA	7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Giant Food Stores 6539	Harrisburg, PA	7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Fairhope Store	Fairhope, AL	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ARC Industries Bixby Center	Groveport, OH	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Calumet Missouri	Louisiana, MO	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Womack Sanitation	Arcadia, FL	29 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.