Industry profile · NAICS 485113

Bus transit systems (except mixed mode)

Workplace injury rates across 356 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

356
Employers
6.2
Avg TCR
4.5
BLS benchmark
13,002
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) average 6.2 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.4 times the BLS national benchmark of 4.5.

6.2
avg TCR · reporting employers
4.5
BLS national benchmark
356
employers reporting
13,002
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) Safety Data Reveals

The Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) sector (NAICS 485113) encompasses 356 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 13,002 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 4.5 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 6.2 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Bus transit systems (except mixed mode) that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Blue Water Area Transportation Port Huron, MI D 7.6
Vonlane TN LLC Dallas, TX D 7.5
2662-7062 Chicago, IL D 7.5
Skagit Transit Burlington, WA D 7.5
Ratp Dev Odu Durham, NC D 7.5
Green Mountain Transit - Berlin Berlin, VT D 7.4
Sioux City Transit Sioux City, IA D 7.4
Duluth Transit Authority Duluth, MN D 7.3
6091-609 Phoenix, AZ D 7.3
6091-383 Greensboro, NC D 7.3
2662-7010 Hyde Park, MA D 7.3
3500 Western Bus Facility Washington, DC D 7.2
E.B.T., Inc. West Babylon, NY D 7.1
2662-7034 Merced, CA D 7.0
Transit Management South Daytona, FL D 6.9
Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky Fort Wright, KY D 6.9
9007 Shuttle-Austin Austin, TX D 6.8
Jalbert Leasing Inc. d/b/a C&J Bus Lines Portsmouth, NH D 6.8
keolis ft lauderdale Dania Beach, FL D 6.8
Josephine County Transit Grants Pass, OR D 6.8
7048 Transit Region-Cook Dupage Transit Cdt Chicago, IL D 6.8
2662-7036 Orlando, FL D 6.7
6091-461 New Orleans, LA D 6.7
Vonlane LLC Dallas, TX D 6.7
Rides Mass Transit District, Marion Marion, IL D 6.7
Champion City Transit Management, Inc. Brockton, MA D 6.6
6283_14922 Columbus, IN D 6.6
Minneapolis Spring Street Minneapolis, MN D 6.5
2662-9001 Burlingame, CA D 6.5
2662-7069 Durham, NC D 6.4
327 San Diego - South Bay Chula Vista, CA D 6.4
6091-SS027U Orlando, FL D 6.4
6091-450 Norcross, GA D 6.4
6091-970 Woodland, CA D 6.4
2662-7064 Lansing, IL D 6.4
A20000 - Department of Transportation Detroit, MI D 6.2
9025-15 L.I.F.T.S. Cedar Rapids, IA D 6.2
450 Gwinnett County Norcross, GA D 6.2
6091-158 Neptune, NJ D 6.1
The Transportation Authority, LLC Pembroke Pines, FL D 6.1
6091-326 El Cajon, CA D 6.1
326 El Cajon El Cajon, CA D 6.1
2021 Lapeer Ave. Port Huron, MI D 6.0
6091-723 Charleston, SC D 6.0
2662-7041 Bakersfield, CA D 6.0
AAATA-Main Location Ann Arbor, MI D 6.0
1980 Ronkonkoma, NY D 5.9
6091-480 Gretna, LA D 5.9
Capital Area Transportation Authority Lansing, MI D 5.8
South Central Illinois Mass Transit District Centralia, IL D 5.8
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This sector averages 6.2 against a BLS benchmark of 4.5 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.