Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton

Trenton, MI · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade A.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton: 1.6 TCR = 36% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton safety composite

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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. - Trenton: 0.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 36% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #6/74
  • PHOTO 20055 Walden Ave
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 20055 Walden Ave (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton averages 1.6 TCR (36% 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. - Trenton TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 4.5

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

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 89% 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 #6 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton (53 employees, TCR 1.6) 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. - Trenton
Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton (53 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton 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 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Trenton

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 36 employers in Trenton, 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 20055 Walden Ave 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3074 WEST REGION-MT PLEASANT TX 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DATTCO - Plainfield 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custer's Garage Inc. 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE EDL- Lansing Office 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Energy - Newaygo 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Livonia 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Contractors, Inc. 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2250-7 1,315 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trenton South Engine Plant 892 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trenton Engine Plant North 794 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Tool & Engineering 597 FTE
NAT-TCR Lubrizol Advanced Materials Inc Bowling Green 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ACCO Engineered Systems 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR South Durham Operations 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ruyle Mechanical Services, Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aerobotix, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loven Contracting Inc 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dedicated Duncan 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rock Hill 10130 53 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.