School bus services · Montana

Hellgate Transportation, Inc.

Missoula, MT · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hellgate Transportation, Inc. runs at 289% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade F.

Hellgate Transportation, Inc.: 13.0 TCR = 289% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hellgate Transportation, Inc. safety composite

Hellgate Transportation, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Hellgate Transportation, Inc.: 11.5 → 14.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Hellgate Transportation, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.0 from 11.5 in 2018 to 14.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Missoula, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 289% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Liberty Union High S…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Liberty Union High School District - Transportation (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hellgate Transportation, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hellgate Transportation, Inc. averages 13.0 TCR (289% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

Hellgate Transportation, Inc. TCR series: 2018=11.5 · 2023=14.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Hellgate Transportation, Inc. falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 School bus services employers in Montana.

Hellgate Transportation, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 13.0) 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 Hellgate Transportation, Inc.
Hellgate Transportation, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Hellgate Transportation, Inc. has fewer employees than the School bus services 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
2023 14.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 11.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MT · Missoula

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 181 employers in Missoula, MT · 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 Liberty Union High School District - Transportation 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3038 WEST REGION-PLEASANT HILL 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 12821 Porterville 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR STA - East Penn 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glendive Service Cetner 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE PSC Industrial Outsourcing, LP-BMT 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&R Planing, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Torgerson's-Lewistown 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000460 2,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR MT190 ST PATRICK HOSPITAL-BROADWAY BLDG-MISSOU 1,966 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Medical Center 985 FTE
CITY-NEAR MSSLMTXA 670 FTE
NAT-TCR Phoenix DC #087 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Denton DC #086 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Home Health Care Professionals - Waconia 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR L & S Sweeteners Inc. 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Farrell's Maintenance Service 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami Dade Police Department Miami Lakes 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami Dade Police Department HQ 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ocean State CPL 27 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: 2023, 2018. 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.