Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR Union

Grand Rapids, MI · ~153 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR Union runs at 99% 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 Union: 4.5 TCR = 99% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR Union safety composite

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR Union scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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 Union: 4.1 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR Union's TCR rose 0.7 from 4.1 in 2023 to 4.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Grand Rapids, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 99% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #41/74
  • PHOTO Slinger Terminal
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Slinger Terminal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR Union in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR Union averages 4.5 TCR (99% 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. - GR Union TCR series: 2023=4.1 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 4.5

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

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #41 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR Union (153 employees, TCR 4.5) 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. - GR Union
Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR Union (153 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR Union 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 4.8 4.8 6 0 0
2023 4.1 2.5 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Slinger Terminal 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Hills 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3043 WEST REGION-WOODLAND PARK 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6004 GREAT LAKES REGION-MONROE OH 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE E&L Construction Group 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE D&D Building, Inc 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin City Foods - Lake Odessa 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Backyard Products 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR Scholastic, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmers International, Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR T-E Incorporated 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hall-Irwin Corp 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ColorDynamics, Inc. 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland Hospital Service Corporation 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ken Caryl Glass Inc. 153 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.