Bus line operation, intercity · Connecticut

Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit

Centerbrook, CT · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus line operation, intercity workplace, earning a grade D.

Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit: 5.8 TCR = 130% of Bus line operation, intercity BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit safety composite

Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit: 4.7 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.2× in 2021

Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit's TCR rose 8.1 from 4.7 in 2019 to 12.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485210 · Centerbrook, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 130% of ind

  • DART 12.8 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Concord Coach Lines,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Concord Coach Lines, Inc. - Portland Transportation Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit averages 5.8 TCR (130% of the Bus line operation, intercity BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit TCR series: 2019=4.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=12.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit falls in its industry

161 Bus line operation, intercity establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Bus line operation, intercity employers in Connecticut.

Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit (29 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit
Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit (29 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit has fewer employees than the Bus line operation, intercity median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2021 12.8 12.8 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485210 · CT · Centerbrook

161 Bus line operation, intercity employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 5 employers in Centerbrook, CT · 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 Concord Coach Lines, Inc. - Portland Transportation Center 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sam Van Galder Bus 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Market Street Garage 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 52751 Jacksonville Transit 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE First Taxing District Water Department Treatment Plant 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jacobs - Norwalk - OMI 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cocchiola Paving, Inc. 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works - Streets amd Roads 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centerbrook 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tower Laboratories Ltd. 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centerbrook Call Center 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Estuary Transit District 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Easton Coach Company - Philadelphia 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NAI Signage Solutions 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Briarcliffe Manor 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St Joe Soy 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE ERC-Denver 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monarch-McLaren Ltd. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Paving Co. of Paducah 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stevens Moving & Storage, Inc. - Headquarters 29 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.