Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Howard City

Howard City, MI · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Howard City runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Howard City: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Howard City safety composite

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Howard City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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. - Howard City held a steady TCR band

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Howard City's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.0 TCR.

2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Howard City, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/74
  • PHOTO Transportation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transportation (0.0 TCR gap)

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

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

TCR

What this shows Dean Transportation, Inc. - Howard City averages 0.0 TCR (0% 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. - Howard City TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

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

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 100% 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 #0 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Howard City (23 employees, TCR 0.0) 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. - Howard City
Dean Transportation, Inc. - Howard City (23 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Howard City has fewer employees than the Bus operation, school and employee median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Howard City

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 5 employers in Howard 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 Transportation 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wheatfield St 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gruner Rd 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20466 - Saddleback 0.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - MIS 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Casey Woodwyk, Inc. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Schuring, Jr. Company 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atwood Timber and Lumber 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolverine Worldwide - Distribution Center 55 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leppinks Howard City 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard City 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR DTW Transport, LLC 42 FTE
NAT-TCR Other Location 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Putzel Electrical Contractors, Inc. 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gaapr - Ups Supply Chain Solutions 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TXC101551 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1st FP Austin, LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Andover-Haverhill-Ma29 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit Pack Co., Inc. 23 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.