Industry profile · NAICS 926120

Transportation departments, nonoperating

Workplace injury rates across 194 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

194
Employers
4.5
Avg TCR
3.2
BLS benchmark
9,047
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Transportation departments, nonoperating average 4.5 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.4 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.2.

4.5
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.2
BLS national benchmark
194
employers reporting
9,047
recordable injuries

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

What Transportation departments, nonoperating Safety Data Reveals

The Transportation departments, nonoperating sector (NAICS 926120) encompasses 194 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 9,047 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.5 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 3.2 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 4.5 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 Transportation departments, nonoperating 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
KYTC District 5 Louisville, KY D 5.8
Minnesota Department of Transportation District Two Bemidji, MN D 5.8
Northwest Region WSDOT Shorline, WA D 5.7
Town of Kittery Department of Public Works Kittery, ME D 5.7
KYTC District 12 Pikeville, KY D 5.7
Wise Residency Wise, VA D 5.7
District 3 Marysville, CA D 5.7
Minnesota Department of Transportation Metro District Roseville, MN D 5.5
Department of Public Works Olney, IL D 5.5
Public Works Auburn, CA D 5.4
City of Greensboro-Department of Transportation (GDOT) Greensboro, NC D 5.4
District 4 Oakland, CA D 5.3
KYTC District 1 Paducah, KY D 5.3
SC Department of Transportation Columbia, SC D 5.3
Olympic Region WSDOT Lacey, WA D 5.2
Southwest Region WSDOT Vancouver, WA D 5.2
Iowa DOT - Ames Garage Ames, IA D 5.2
KYTC District 11 Manchester, KY D 5.1
District 9 Bishop, CA D 5.0
KYTC District 4 Elizabethtown, KY D 5.0
Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (101) Palmer, AK D 5.0
Public Works & Facilities Auburn, CA D 5.0
Williamsburg Residency Williamsburg, VA D 4.9
KYTC District 8 Somerset, KY D 4.8
MnDOT - District 4 Detroit Lakes, MN D 4.8
D9 Materials Laboratory Carbondale, IL D 4.8
Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (50) Fairbanks, AK D 4.8
District 12 Pikeville, KY D 4.8
Eastern Region WSDOT Spokane, WA D 4.7
District 11 San Diego, CA D 4.6
KYTC District 3 Bowling Green, KY D 4.6
South Central Region WSDOT Yakima, WA D 4.5
Port of Port Angeles Port Angeles, WA D 4.5
Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage Waterloo, IA D 4.5
KYTC District 2 Madisonville, KY D 4.4
D3 Materials Laboratory Ottawa, IL D 4.4
Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (102) Palmer, AK D 4.2
District 8 San Bernardino, CA D 4.2
Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (85) Ketchikan, AK D 4.2
KYTC District 10 Jackson, KY D 4.1
Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (48) Fairbanks, AK D 4.1
DMV - Powell Blvd Portland, OR D 4.1
Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (49) Fairbanks, AK D 4.0
Maryland State Highway Administration Hagerstown Hagerstown, MD D 3.9
504 Airport, Gmia, Timmerman Milwaukee, WI D 3.9
Iowa DOT - Bureau Of Investigation Ankeny, IA D 3.9
CO Portable Scales Springfield, IL D 3.9
Jamestown Scotland Ferry Surry, VA C 3.8
Transportation Department Asheville, NC C 3.7
Iowa DOT - Cedar Rapids Garage Cedar Rapids, IA C 3.6
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This sector averages 4.5 against a BLS benchmark of 3.2 - 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.