School bus services · North Carolina

UCPS Transportation Department

Monroe, NC · ~485 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UCPS Transportation Department runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

UCPS Transportation Department: 1.5 TCR = 33% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UCPS Transportation Department safety composite

UCPS Transportation Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

UCPS Transportation Department: 0.7 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2024

UCPS Transportation Department's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.7 in 2023 to 2.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Monroe, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 33% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Pennsylvania Coach -…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~485 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pennsylvania Coach - McKeesport (0.0 TCR gap)

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UCPS Transportation Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UCPS Transportation Department averages 1.5 TCR (33% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

UCPS Transportation Department TCR series: 2023=0.7 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 4.5

Where UCPS Transportation Department falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 School bus services employers in North Carolina.

UCPS Transportation Department (485 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate UCPS Transportation Department
UCPS Transportation Department (485 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

UCPS Transportation Department 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 2.3 1.6 7 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · NC · Monroe

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 163 employers in Monroe, NC · 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 Pennsylvania Coach - McKeesport 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 403016-Peterborough | NH | LON-300 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 143009-San Jose | CA | SAN-555 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR St Andrews 20424 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nucor Steel Hertford County 485 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurel Hill Distribution Center 485 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Environmental Consultants, LLC 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Thomasville NC 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monroe Plant 1,584 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0060-CHS Union 1,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0060-Atrium Health Union 1,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1108-Atrium Health Union (1108) 1,041 FTE
NAT-TCR Continental Electric Company 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt (Love Box) LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR FabOhio Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Koch Fertilizer Dodge City 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Austin Operations 485 FTE
NAT-SIZE Port Newark Auto Terminal 485 FTE
NAT-SIZE LeChase Construction Services, LLC 485 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 086 485 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. 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.