Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) · North Carolina

Orange County - Department of Transportation

Hillsborough, NC · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Orange County - Department of Transportation runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) workplace, earning a grade A.

Orange County - Department of Transportation: 2.0 TCR = 44% of Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Orange County - Department of Transportation safety composite

Orange County - Department of Transportation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

Orange County - Department of Transportation: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2024

Orange County - Department of Transportation's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · Hillsborough, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 44% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #3/16
  • PHOTO Winter Park Lift Bus
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Winter Park Lift Bus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Orange County - Department of Transportation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Orange County - Department of Transportation averages 2.0 TCR (44% of the Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) BLS benchmark).

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

Orange County - Department of Transportation TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Orange County - Department of Transportation falls in its industry

332 Bus services, urban and suburb establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 16 Bus services, urban and suburb employers in North Carolina.

Orange County - Department of Transportation (35 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Orange County - Department of Transportation
Orange County - Department of Transportation (35 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Orange County - Department of Transportation has fewer employees than the Bus services, urban and suburban (except median and a lower 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 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · NC · Hillsborough

332 Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 45 employers in Hillsborough, NC · 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 Winter Park Lift Bus 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capital City Transit 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Transit 55431 Fort Bend County 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7061 TRANSIT REGION-PHOENIX AZ 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boykin Farms, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE NEW COLONY SOW FARM 6276 -EST 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsboro Field Services 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butterball LLC Hatchery # 2 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sports Endeavors 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1191 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1191 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emergency Services 232 FTE
NAT-TCR Holmes Lumber 495 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 40th District Court 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Woods Of DeKalb 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Engbarth Directional Drilling 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE International Pipe & Supply, LLC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jerrys Do It Best Hardward Edina - 5212 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-EEC-Irwindale 6090 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-Vincent Substation 35 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.