Bus operation, school and employee · New York

Walden Sped

Buffalo, NY · ~271 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walden Sped runs at 2% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade A.

Walden Sped: 0.1 TCR = 2% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walden Sped safety composite

Walden Sped scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

Walden Sped held a steady TCR band

Walden Sped's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.1 in 2016 to 0.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.1 · 2022=0.1 · 2023=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 2% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #10/158
  • PHOTO First Student
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~271 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Student (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walden Sped in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walden Sped averages 0.1 TCR (2% 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

Walden Sped TCR series: 2016=0.1 · 2022=0.1 · 2023=0.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Walden Sped falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 158 Bus operation, school and empl employers in New York.

Walden Sped (271 employees, TCR 0.1) 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 Walden Sped
Walden Sped (271 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Walden Sped has more 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 0.1 0.1 15 0 0
2022 0.1 0.0 10 0 0
2016 0.1 0.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · NY · Buffalo

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 532 employers in Buffalo, NY · 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 First Student 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walck Rd 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bailey Ave 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20319 San Jose 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mega Contracting Group LLC 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hellman Electric LLC 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Wire - Camden Plant 1 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE Defense and Systems Bohemia NY 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo General Hospital 3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital of Buffalo 2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR WNY Independent Living, Inc. 1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital 1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR 103440 - E130 Seattle to South Bellevue 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Uber Technologies Mathilda Place 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR General Office 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 041c - Chicago Ops 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Winpak Portion Packaging 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE CJ Industries 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #07 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Building Maintenance 271 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, 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.