Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th

Name: Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Grand Rapids, MI · ~191 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 5.2
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th: 5.2 TCR = 116% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th safety composite

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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. - GR 44th: 4.0 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2024

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th's TCR rose 2.3 from 4.0 in 2023 to 6.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 116% of ind

DART 5.7 DART
RANK #45/74
PHOTO Bus Garage
BOOK 2y book
INJ 13 inj
SIZE ~191 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bus Garage (0.0 TCR gap)

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2662-2017

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What this shows Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th averages 5.2 TCR (116% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th TCR series: 2023=4 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th (191 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th has more 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	6.4	5.7	8	1	0
2023	4.0	2.4	5	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Grand Rapids

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, 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	Bus Garage	NEW PRAGUE, MN	5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	97390001-LOT09 BOE - LOT 09 - BLADENSBURG	BLADENSBURG, MD	5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2662-2017	PITTSBURG, CA	5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Clearfield School Bus	CLEARFIELD, PA	5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Roskam Foods M2	KENTWOOD	191 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Renosol Seating, LLC - Farwell	FARWELL	191 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Knape and Vogt Eastern	GRAND RAPIDS	191 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Warren Screw Products, Inc.	WARREN	191 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA	Grand Rapids	9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SH Butterworth Hospital	Grand Rapids	7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI	Grand Rapids	2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood	Grand Rapids	2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR	Dynamic Engineering, Inc	Watertown, SD	5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Silco Fire & Security - Akron	Akron, OH	5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Giant Food Stores 6089	Horsham, PA	5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cape	Cape Girardeau, MO	5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Decore-Ative Specialties	Irwindale, CA	191 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sun Chemical Northlake	Northlake, IL	191 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Werres Corporation	Frederick, MD	191 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Suminoe Textile of America	Gaffney, SC	191 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.