Bus operation, school and employee · Iowa

20703 Council Bluffs

Council Bluffs, IA · ~129 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

20703 Council Bluffs runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

20703 Council Bluffs: 8.0 TCR = 179% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

20703 Council Bluffs safety composite

20703 Council Bluffs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.2

2022→2023

20703 Council Bluffs injury rate improved

20703 Council Bluffs's TCR fell 7.2 from 11.7 in 2022 to 4.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=11.7 · 2023=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Council Bluffs, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 179% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #18/22
  • PHOTO Jim Thorpe Terminal
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jim Thorpe Terminal (0.0 TCR gap)

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20703 Council Bluffs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 20703 Council Bluffs averages 8.0 TCR (179% 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

20703 Council Bluffs TCR series: 2022=11.7 · 2023=4.4 · BLS 4.5

Where 20703 Council Bluffs falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 22 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Iowa.

20703 Council Bluffs (129 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 20703 Council Bluffs
20703 Council Bluffs (129 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

20703 Council Bluffs has more employees than the Bus operation, school and employee median and a higher 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 4.4 3.0 3 0 0
2022 11.7 8.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · IA · Council Bluffs

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 165 employers in Council Bluffs, IA · 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 Jim Thorpe Terminal 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-4076 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 343007-Center SD (Kansas City) | MO | MIZ-100 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6091-605 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Murphy Tower Service LLC 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE HAWKEYE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS OF CEDAR RAPIDS, LTD 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa City 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6568 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant 1,486 FTE
CITY-NEAR 61830022 JENNIE EDMUNDSON MEMORIAL HOSP 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6183-61830022 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs IA 742 FTE
NAT-TCR Project PM 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR WellBridge of Pinckney 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn Savannah Midtown 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Builders Supply of Valdosta, Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Lakeway 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ransohoff 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Axium New Albany Plant #3 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Marcos #134 129 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. 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.