School bus services · Pennsylvania

Philly Trans

Philadelphia, PA · ~229 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Philly Trans runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade B.

Philly Trans: 3.5 TCR = 77% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Philly Trans safety composite

Philly Trans scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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)
C 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Philly Trans: 3.5 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.77× in 2024

Philly Trans's TCR rose 3.3 from 3.5 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Philadelphia, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 77% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #91/227
  • PHOTO Bus Garage
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~229 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bus Garage (0.0 TCR gap)

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Philly Trans in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Philly Trans averages 3.5 TCR (77% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

Philly Trans TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=4 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Philly Trans falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #91 safest of 227 School bus services employers in Pennsylvania.

Philly Trans (229 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Philly Trans
Philly Trans (229 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Philly Trans has more employees than the School bus services median and a lower 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 6.8 6.1 10 0 0
2023 1.9 1.2 3 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 4 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 4 0 0
2020 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2019 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2018 5.5 5.5 9 0 0
2016 3.5 3.5 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · PA · Philadelphia

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,431 employers in Philadelphia, PA · 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 Bus Garage 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-4119 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transportation Department 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Philly Trans Orthodox Street 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Warminster Service Building 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dillsburg 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dean Dairy - Sharpsville 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE E00610-Pepperidge Farm Downingtown 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR FIVE BELOW INC 19,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital of University of Pennsylvania 13,423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Hospital 9,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Campus 9,129 FTE
NAT-TCR Tosca - Lakewood 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PCSI Location 750 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rule Construction, Ltd. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trenton A Food Rite 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schwickerts Tecta America 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Muscolino 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE XCO 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Falkner Farms 229 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, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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