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
430 Taps Sherman, TX D 5.8
735 Yolo Woodland, CA D 5.8
2662-6116 Carbondale, IL D 5.8
TCAT Ithaca, NY D 5.7
6091-327 Chula Vista, CA D 5.7
6091-747 Los Angeles, CA D 5.6
6091-373 Concord, NC D 5.6
Flint Hills Area Transportation Agency Manhattan, KS D 5.6
South Bend Public Transportation Corp. - Transpo South Bend, IN D 5.6
Votran South Daytona, FL D 5.5
Hudson Transit Lines Inc. Chester, NY D 5.5
3515-35150018 Toms River, NJ D 5.4
9009 Shuttle-Boston Boston, MA C 5.3
Greyhound Lines, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh, PA C 5.3
2662-7031 Colorado Springs, CO C 5.3
55473 Lorain County Elyria, OH C 5.3
Yuma County Area Tansit (YCAT) RATP Dev Yuma Yuma, AZ C 5.2
CHARLOTTESVILLE-TRANSIT Charlottesville, VA C 5.2
GMT Burlington, VT C 5.2
6091-SS022 Astoria, NY C 5.1
7037 Transit Region-White Plains Ny White Plains, NY C 5.1
2662-7012 Arlington, VA C 5.1
City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems Knoxville, TN C 5.1
373 Concord Concord, NC C 5.1
WTB Fort Sam Houston, TX C 5.0
GoRaleigh Raleigh, NC C 5.0
Operations Building Santa Cruz, CA C 5.0
55820 Denver North Commerce City, CO C 5.0
Mass Transportation Authority Flint, MI C 4.9
970 Grand Valley Transit Grand Junction, CO C 4.9
52660 Springfield Springfield, OH C 4.9
AppalCART Boone, NC C 4.8
480 Jefferson Parish Gretna, LA C 4.8
TMR Toms Toms River, NJ C 4.8
Watertown Bus Maintenance Facility Watertown, CT C 4.8
Transit Connection LLC Pembroke Pines, FL C 4.8
2662-7013 Greensboro, NC C 4.8
GRTC Transit System Richmond, VA C 4.8
6091-421 Orlando, FL C 4.7
Transit Cedar Rapids, IA C 4.7
Megabus Northeast, LLC Elizabeth, NJ C 4.7
Greater Roanoke Transit Company Roanoke, VA C 4.7
2662-9020 San Jose, CA C 4.6
2662-7060 Hermitage, TN C 4.6
6091-125 Leesburg, VA C 4.5
6091-132 Denver, CO C 4.5
Blue Water Area Transportation Commission Port Huron, MI C 4.5
Lake Erie Transit Monroe, MI C 4.5
2662-7053 Springfield, MA C 4.5
Ben Franklin Transit Richland, WA C 4.5
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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.