Bus operation, school and employee · Maryland

DOT West Farm Transp Depot

Silver Spring, MD · ~484 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DOT West Farm Transp Depot runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

DOT West Farm Transp Depot: 7.5 TCR = 168% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DOT West Farm Transp Depot safety composite

DOT West Farm Transp Depot scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

DOT West Farm Transp Depot: 5.8 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

DOT West Farm Transp Depot's TCR rose 3.3 from 5.8 in 2021 to 9.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Silver Spring, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #26/33
  • PHOTO Chenango Forks Centr…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~484 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chenango Forks Central School District (0.0 TCR gap)

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DOT West Farm Transp Depot in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DOT West Farm Transp Depot averages 7.5 TCR (168% 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

DOT West Farm Transp Depot TCR series: 2021=5.8 · 2022=7.9 · 2024=9 · BLS 4.5

Where DOT West Farm Transp Depot falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 33 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Maryland.

DOT West Farm Transp Depot (484 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate DOT West Farm Transp Depot
DOT West Farm Transp Depot (484 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

DOT West Farm Transp Depot 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 9.0 6.8 29 0 0
2022 7.9 5.9 24 0 0
2021 5.8 4.4 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MD · Silver Spring

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 160 employers in Silver Spring, MD · 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 Chenango Forks Central School District 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 403011-Kearsarge | NH | GOF-200 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 193006-Jacksonville | FL | JAX-000 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dean Transportation, Inc. - St. Louis 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manganaro Midatlantic LLC 484 FTE
STATE-SIZE Republic National Distributing Company 26 483 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9234-95011115 485 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oceaneering International - Advanced Technologies Hanover 486 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Cross Hospital-Silver Spring 3,228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Cross Hospital-Silver Spring-HCH-MD 2,537 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist HealthCare, Inc., d/b/a Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center 1,496 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riderwood Village 1,375 FTE
NAT-TCR Tree House Brewing, Charlton 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Eye Care Specialists 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0782 Coral Springs 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercer Trucking Co., Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE USA Thomasville NC 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco West Coast Florida 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE Behavioral Health Works 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smithfield Foods Inc. 484 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.