Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Walled Lake

Walled Lake, MI · ~106 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Walled Lake runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade B.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Walled Lake: 3.5 TCR = 77% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Walled Lake safety composite

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Walled Lake scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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. - Walled Lake: 2.8 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Walled Lake's TCR rose 1.4 from 2.8 in 2023 to 4.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Walled Lake, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 77% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #27/74
  • PHOTO 20837-East Memphis
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 20837-East Memphis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dean Transportation, Inc. - Walled Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dean Transportation, Inc. - Walled Lake averages 3.5 TCR (77% 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. - Walled Lake TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Dean Transportation, Inc. - Walled Lake falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 61% 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 #27 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Walled Lake (106 employees, TCR 3.5) 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. - Walled Lake
Dean Transportation, Inc. - Walled Lake (106 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dean Transportation, Inc. - Walled Lake has more 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 4.2 4.2 3 0 0
2023 2.8 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Walled Lake

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 24 employers in Walled Lake, 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 20837-East Memphis 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 483014-Pine Richland | PA | COR-200 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR All-Star-Lakeville 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Relia Transportation 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE FPAW LLC- Lansing 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infrastrucutre Alternatives 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG DET Sales & Marketing 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Austin Co. Michigan 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR C.A. Hull Co., Inc. 337 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0896 - Commerce Township 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTSV-M 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR 259700-WALLED LAKE PO 131 FTE
NAT-TCR WILMINGTON-MA57 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SF2 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chowchilla Water District 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Griffith WAVA - Cheverly 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Industrial Roofing Company LLC 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Overland Corporation 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mongiovi and Son 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0415-Chillicothe 106 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.