Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) · Minnesota

Wadena County Transit Department

Wadena, MN · ~75 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wadena County Transit Department runs at 256% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) workplace, earning a grade F.

Wadena County Transit Department: 11.5 TCR = 256% of Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wadena County Transit Department safety composite

Wadena County Transit Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Wadena County Transit Department: 15.8 → 18.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

Wadena County Transit Department's TCR rose 2.9 from 15.8 in 2022 to 18.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · Wadena, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.5 · 256% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO 6091-698
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6091-698 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Wadena County Transit Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wadena County Transit Department averages 11.5 TCR (256% of the Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) BLS benchmark).

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

Wadena County Transit Department TCR series: 2022=15.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=18.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Wadena County Transit Department falls in its industry

332 Bus transit systems (except mi establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Bus transit systems (except mi employers in Minnesota.

Wadena County Transit Department (75 employees, TCR 11.5) 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 Wadena County Transit Department
Wadena County Transit Department (75 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Wadena County Transit Department has fewer employees than the Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) median and a higher 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
2024 18.7 9.4 1 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 15.8 7.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · MN · Wadena

332 Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 34 employers in Wadena, MN · 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 6091-698 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7063 TRANSIT REGION-TUCSON 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MTS - Corvallis Transit 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9024 SHUTTLE-STOCKTON 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crossroad Construction, Inc. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE BCI Construction, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Asphalt Services, LLC 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE M. G. McGrath, Inc. Glass & Glazing 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4246 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4246 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elementary 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homecrest Outdoor Living 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Quincy Thrift Store 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Eco Thrift Store - 154ctrs 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ARCA InterCare Service Trumbull 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express Modesto 11.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE McIntyre Elwell Strammer GC Inc 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE EthosEnergy Light Turbines LLC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haworth Walls 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gemstar Construction & Development, Inc. 75 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.