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

SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation

San Carlos, CA · ~146 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) workplace, earning a grade D.

SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation: 7.6 TCR = 168% of Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation safety composite

SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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-South Base Bus Transportation: 5.8 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2021

SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation's TCR rose 1.7 from 5.8 in 2018 to 7.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485111 · San Carlos, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 168% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #42/75
  • PHOTO Trans-Bridge Lines, …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trans-Bridge Lines, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation averages 7.6 TCR (168% 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-South Base Bus Transportation TCR series: 2018=5.8 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=8.6 · 2021=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation falls in its industry

421 Urban transit systems, mixed m establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #42 safest of 75 Urban transit systems, mixed m employers in California.

SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation (146 employees, TCR 7.6) 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-South Base Bus Transportation
SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation (146 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

SMCTD-South Base Bus Transportation has fewer employees than the Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., median and a higher 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
2021 7.5 5.8 4 5 0
2020 8.6 8.6 11 0 0
2019 8.4 7.0 12 0 0
2018 5.8 4.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485111 · CA · San Carlos

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 · 57 employers in San Carlos, 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 Trans-Bridge Lines, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Transit 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR County of Harnett-HARTS 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1122 77TH STREET MAINTENANCE 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CG - 001 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leon Farms Inc 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE TES/GEOSCIENCES 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arrow Construction 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rudolph and Sletten 686 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Medical Foundation (30507) 534 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10145) 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR San Mateo County Transit District 293 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Edina 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Daniels Sharpsmart, Inc. Baltimore 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sparton 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dover-Foxcroft 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE USCS- Hazleton, PA 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bernatello's Pizza, Inc 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radius Aerospace Fort Worth 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Geeding Construction, Inc. 146 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: 2021, 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.