Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing

Lansing, MI · ~349 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing safety composite

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.67 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. - Lansing: 4.6 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing's TCR rose 2.2 from 4.6 in 2023 to 6.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Lansing, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #50/74
  • PHOTO 96920028-7 ALLTOWN B…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~349 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 96920028-7 ALLTOWN BUS SERVICE-DAVENPORT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing averages 5.7 TCR (126% 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. - Lansing TCR series: 2023=4.6 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 4.5

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

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #50 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing (349 employees, TCR 5.7) 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. - Lansing
Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing (349 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing 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 6.8 5.7 18 0 0
2023 4.6 4.2 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Lansing

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 410 employers in Lansing, 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 96920028-7 ALLTOWN BUS SERVICE-DAVENPORT 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4147 EAST REGION-ONEONTA NY 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 370-Alton 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albion 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kent Power 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kalsec Main Campus 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 4 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanon Systems 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lansing Delta Township Assembly 2,608 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Lansing Delta Township Assembly 2,446 FTE
CITY-NEAR LCC - Main 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lansing Grand River Assembly 1,648 FTE
NAT-TCR Wabash Trucking, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dayton Branch 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 743 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Roof Life of Oregon 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Beatitudes Campus 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nypro, Inc 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marceline 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE INNIO Waukesha Gas Engines, Inc 349 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.