Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Dearborn

Dearborn, MI · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Dearborn runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Dearborn: 6.4 TCR = 142% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Dearborn safety composite

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Dearborn scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Dearborn held a steady TCR band

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Dearborn's TCR held near 0.2 from 6.5 in 2023 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.5 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 142% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #55/74
  • PHOTO RCX South Carolina
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RCX South Carolina (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dean Transportation, Inc. - Dearborn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dean Transportation, Inc. - Dearborn averages 6.4 TCR (142% 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. - Dearborn TCR series: 2023=6.5 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 4.5

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

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #55 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Dearborn (24 employees, TCR 6.4) 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. - Dearborn
Dean Transportation, Inc. - Dearborn (24 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Dearborn 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 6.3 6.3 1 0 0
2023 6.5 6.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Dearborn

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 130 employers in Dearborn, 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 RCX South Carolina 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 12700 - Philadelphia 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butler's Bus Service-Milford 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4076 CENTRAL REGION-NORTHVILLE MI 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Medina Dairy, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sturgis 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CE Innovation Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Filtration and Meter Shop 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDC - PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CENTER TRUCK 20,749 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dearborn Truck Plant 5,037 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2250-1 4,185 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDC - PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CENTER DESIGN 3,940 FTE
NAT-TCR Loews Royal Pacific Resort 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Petro MD - Baltimore 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6472 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CP Industries Holdings, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Luverne School Bus Garage 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Gateway Co of Missouri, LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belmont Aggregates, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Residence Inn Durham McPherson 24 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.