Mixed mode transit systems (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) · Minnesota

Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance

Minneapolis, MN · ~217 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mixed mode transit systems (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) workplace, earning a grade C.

Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance: 3.7 TCR = 82% of Mixed mode transit systems (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance safety composite

Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance: 3.4 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance's TCR rose 0.5 from 3.4 in 2018 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485111 · Minneapolis, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #3/18
  • PHOTO Location 63
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~217 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Location 63 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance averages 3.7 TCR (82% of the Mixed mode transit systems (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) BLS benchmark).

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

Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance TCR series: 2018=3.4 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=2.9 · 2022=3 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance falls in its industry

421 Mixed mode transit systems (e. establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 18 Mixed mode transit systems (e. employers in Minnesota.

Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance (217 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance
Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance (217 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance has more employees than the Mixed mode transit systems (e.g., bus, c median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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 3.8 3.4 7 1 0
2023 4.7 4.7 8 1 0
2022 3.0 2.5 6 0 0
2020 2.9 1.9 6 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 9 0 0
2018 3.4 3.4 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485111 · MN · Minneapolis

421 Mixed mode transit systems (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 1,321 employers in Minneapolis, MN · 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 Location 63 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4252 RAIL STATION MGT SUPPORT RYP 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jacksonville, FL - Alvarez Road 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 55621 NYSDOT H.E.L.P. 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE H2I Group, Inc. - Corporate 217 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6340-VIKING-MN007 217 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2800 217 FTE
STATE-SIZE COON RAPIDS MN - 3028 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Twin Cities 22,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN950 MN TELECOMMUTER 12,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0501 - City Center 8,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hennepin County Medical Center 7,030 FTE
NAT-TCR Samtec Cable 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR S04140 - Philadelphia Hauling - Delaware Valley North 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Navco Berry Harvest 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bayes, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE S04050 - WM - OK City Hauling 217 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pallet Express 217 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pats Peak 217 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niagara Bottling, LLC - Dallas 1 217 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.