Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) · Iowa

MET Transit

Waterloo, IA · ~49 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MET Transit runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) workplace, earning a grade D.

MET Transit: 8.5 TCR = 189% of Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MET Transit safety composite

MET Transit scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

MET Transit: 3.6 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

MET Transit's TCR rose 3.0 from 3.6 in 2019 to 6.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.5 · 189% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Transit
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transit (0.0 TCR gap)

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MET Transit in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MET Transit averages 8.5 TCR (189% of the Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) BLS benchmark).

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

MET Transit TCR series: 2019=3.6 · 2020=14.4 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=15.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 4.5

Where MET Transit falls in its industry

332 Bus transit systems (except mi establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Bus transit systems (except mi employers in Iowa.

MET Transit (49 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate MET Transit
MET Transit (49 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

MET Transit has fewer employees than the Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 6.6 6.6 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 15.6 15.6 1 0 0
2021 10.7 10.7 6 0 0
2020 14.4 3.6 8 0 0
2019 3.6 3.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · IA · Waterloo

332 Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 172 employers in Waterloo, IA · 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 Transit 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-7044 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6091-727 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Metro Transit 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Marshalltown, IA 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms West 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIPCO - Cedar Rapids 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hawk County Extension 4,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterloo Pork Plant 2,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint 2,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR JD Waterloo Tractor and Cab Assembly Operations 1,605 FTE
NAT-TCR CAN040 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AZP033 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Two Men And A Truck 0375 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tyler Road Plant 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Green Bay East 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE FirstKey Homes LLC - Indianapolis / Columbus / Cincinnati 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pine Bluff Flint Group 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heartland Construction Inc. 49 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.