Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) · California

SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance

South San Francisco, CA · ~88 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) workplace, earning a grade B.

SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance: 2.5 TCR = 55% of Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance safety composite

SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance: 1.3 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2020

SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.3 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485111 · South San Francisco, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #12/75
  • PHOTO First Student 22043/…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Student 22043/Helena (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance averages 2.5 TCR (55% of the Urban transit systems, mixed mode (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

SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance TCR series: 2018=1.3 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance falls in its industry

421 Urban transit systems, mixed m establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 75 Urban transit systems, mixed m employers in California.

SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance (88 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance
SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance (88 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance has fewer employees than the Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., 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
2020 2.5 1.2 2 0 0
2019 3.7 2.5 3 0 0
2018 1.3 1.3 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485111 · CA · South San Francisco

421 Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 136 employers in South San Francisco, 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 First Student 22043/Helena 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City, MO - NE Birmingham 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeland Bus Lines Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alexandria Rail Facility/Telegraph Road 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Neil Bassetti Farms, LLC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Espinosa 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoei Foods USA, Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown Hill Ranches Inc. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Genentech SSF 13,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120951 1,497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspiranet 1,182 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620951 1,178 FTE
NAT-TCR CS Kansas 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Advocate Medical Group 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR YRK 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Prinova USA, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Xanitos EVS at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Plant/Wyoming 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ramada Plaza 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norstan Communications Inc. - FL(MDAD)* 88 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: 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.