Bus operation, school and employee · California

Merced Union High School District Transportation Department

Merced, CA · ~41 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Merced Union High School District Transportation Department runs at 283% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade F.

Merced Union High School District Transportation Department: 12.7 TCR = 283% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merced Union High School District Transportation Department safety composite

Merced Union High School District Transportation Department 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 12.73 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%).

Merced Union High School District Transportation Department held a steady TCR band

Merced Union High School District Transportation Department's TCR held near 0.2 from 12.8 in 2023 to 12.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=12.8 · 2024=12.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Merced, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 283% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #108/119
  • PHOTO 343008-St. Louis | M…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 343008-St. Louis | MO | 343008 (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · California employers → · Look up another →

Merced Union High School District Transportation Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merced Union High School District Transportation Department averages 12.7 TCR (283% 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

Merced Union High School District Transportation Department TCR series: 2023=12.8 · 2024=12.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Merced Union High School District Transportation Department falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #108 safest of 119 Bus operation, school and empl employers in California.

Merced Union High School District Transportation Department (41 employees, TCR 12.7) 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 Merced Union High School District Transportation Department
Merced Union High School District Transportation Department (41 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Merced Union High School District Transportation Department has fewer 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 12.6 0.0 4 0 0
2023 12.8 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CA · Merced

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 187 employers in Merced, CA · 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 343008-St. Louis | MO | 343008 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transportation Department 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Germantown Terminal 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 303006-Annapolis | PA | 303006 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O ORGANIC FARMING ADMINISTRATION 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Lindsay 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | IEW Enterprise 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Jackson Farms, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030211 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030211-211001 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Columbia 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Txden - Denton 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Patwn - East Zone Regional Hub 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Swick Plumbing and Heating 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kempf Philadelphia 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Norfolk 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE GTS Kent 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago 41 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.