Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch

North Branch, MI · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade F.

Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch: 9.1 TCR = 202% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch safety composite

Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2023→2024

Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch injury rate improved

Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch's TCR fell 0.6 from 9.4 in 2023 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.4 · 2024=8.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · North Branch, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 202% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #68/74
  • PHOTO Bellefonte School Bu…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bellefonte School Bus Garage (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch averages 9.1 TCR (202% 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. - North Branch TCR series: 2023=9.4 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #68 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch (32 employees, TCR 9.1) 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. - North Branch
Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch (32 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch 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 8.8 8.8 2 0 0
2023 9.4 9.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · North Branch

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 7 employers in North Branch, 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 Bellefonte School Bus Garage 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 483020-East Penn | PA | KBS-825 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 96920030-105 DS BUS LINES, INC.-OLATHE 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kids On The Go, Inc. 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6801_15743 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Soil Dairy 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berrybrook 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Tawas 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant #2 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lapeer County EMS Station Two - ST2 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant # 1 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR KMI NORTH BRANCH 50 FTE
NAT-TCR Wesley Enhanced Living at Stapeley 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR George L. Throop Company 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gary Poppins 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohspf - Springfield Center 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Champion Glass, LLC. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jordan Oaks 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empey Orchards, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chico 32 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.