Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) · New Jersey

Suburban Transit

New Brunswick, NJ · ~260 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Suburban Transit runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) workplace, earning a grade B.

Suburban Transit: 2.9 TCR = 65% of Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Suburban Transit safety composite

Suburban Transit scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Suburban Transit: 2.4 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2018

Suburban Transit's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.4 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · New Brunswick, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 65% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #3/13
  • PHOTO 2662-7040
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~260 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2662-7040 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Suburban Transit in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Suburban Transit averages 2.9 TCR (65% 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

Suburban Transit TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2018=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Suburban Transit falls in its industry

332 Bus services, urban and suburb establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 13 Bus services, urban and suburb employers in New Jersey.

Suburban Transit (260 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 Suburban Transit
Suburban Transit (260 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Suburban Transit has more 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
2018 3.5 3.5 8 0 0
2016 2.4 0.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · NJ · New Brunswick

332 Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 50 employers in New Brunswick, NJ · 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 2662-7040 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCCK-Transportation Center 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trailblazer Joint Powers Board 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Transit 55595 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chemetall US Inc. 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Wire & Cable 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atalanta Corporation 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10312 Millburn Union 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick 5,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson 2,828 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson Corporate New Brunswick 2,159 FTE
CITY-NEAR E. R. Squibb & Sons LLC - New Brunswick 2,002 FTE
NAT-TCR Pizza Blends Portland Oregon 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellevue 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Original Mattress Factory-Marietta 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Department of Energy - Forrestal 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kauffman Engineering, Inc. VIR 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greensboro Jail 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaPorte Production Facility 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lamp Plant 260 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: 2018, 2016. 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.