Bus operation, school and employee · Delaware

Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc

Wilmington, DE · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade B.

Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc: 3.1 TCR = 70% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc safety composite

Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc: 2.1 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.77× in 2023

Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc's TCR rose 3.5 from 2.1 in 2021 to 5.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Wilmington, DE AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 70% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO 11784 - Kearsarge
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 11784 - Kearsarge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc averages 3.1 TCR (70% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

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

Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc TCR series: 2021=2.1 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Delaware alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Delaware.

Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc (69 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc
Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc (69 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc has fewer employees than the Bus operation, school and employee 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
2023 5.5 5.5 3 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2021 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · DE · Wilmington

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 309 employers in Wilmington, DE · 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 11784 - Kearsarge 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 443014-Newfane | NY | SNY-602 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 483015-Bangor | PA | KBS-200 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4061 CENTRAL REGION-BIRMINGHAM 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Superior Electric Service Company 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bear Industries, Inc 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Savage Services - Delaware City Refinery 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Camden 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10 Wilmington 9,107 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals (Commercial Field-Based Personnel) 4,907 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MTN1 3,143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hatzel & Buehler, Inc. 1,841 FTE
NAT-TCR Federal Tool and Engineering 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rohn Products LLC (Plank Facility) 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tater Farms, LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ramsey 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quality General Inc. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guymann Construction of Fl, Inc 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sav-Mor Mechanical Inc. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilson Works Inc 69 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.