Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Kalamazoo

Name: Dean Transportation, Inc. - Kalamazoo Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Kalamazoo, MI · ~25 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. - Kalamazoo 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. - Kalamazoo: 5.2 TCR = 116% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Kalamazoo safety composite

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Kalamazoo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers
DART rate: F 10.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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. - Kalamazoo: 0.0 → 10.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Kalamazoo's TCR rose 10.5 from 0.0 in 2023 to 10.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 116% of ind

DART 10.5 DART
RANK #46/74
PHOTO 4158 EAST REGION-NEW…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4158 EAST REGION-NEWTOWN PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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4158 EAST REGI

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2662-3091

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5.2

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

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Kalamazoo TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Dean Transportation, Inc. - Kalamazoo 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 #46 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Kalamazoo (25 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. - Kalamazoo 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	10.5	10.5	2	0	0
2023	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Kalamazoo

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 353 employers in Kalamazoo, 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	4158 EAST REGION-NEWTOWN PA	NEWTOWN, PA	5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2662-3091	PLAINFIELD, IL	5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	STA-Markham (MDW-210)	MARKHAM, IL	5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dean Transportation, Inc. - Jackson-Rives	JACKSON, MI	5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Hazel Park	HAZEL PARK	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bayside Best Beans LLC.	SEBEWAING	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tri-County Electric- Blanchard	BLANCHARD	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wastewater Treatment Plant	MONROE	25 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bronson Methodist Hospital	Kalamazoo	4,909 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road	Kalamazoo	3,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Stryker Instruments	Kalamazoo	2,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1855-MIKAL1	Kalamazoo	2,103 FTE
NAT-TCR	GHEMM Company	Fairbanks, AK	5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bradshaw Construction Corporation	Eldersburg, MD	5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Petersburg Terminal	Petersburg, IN	5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kingman USD	Kingman, AZ	5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	1st FP McAllen, LLC	Mcallen, TX	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Great Barrington-Ma11	Great Barrington, MA	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	HANOVER-MA12	Hanover, MA	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	United Industrial Service, Inc	Agawam, MA	25 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.