Bus operation, school and employee · Montana

22043 - Helena

Helena, MT · ~78 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

22043 - Helena runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade A.

22043 - Helena: 1.9 TCR = 42% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

22043 - Helena safety composite

22043 - Helena scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Rising injury rate

22043 - Helena: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

22043 - Helena's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Helena, MT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 42% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO 163511-New Milford |…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 163511-New Milford | CT | 163511 (0.0 TCR gap)

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22043 - Helena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 22043 - Helena averages 1.9 TCR (42% 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

22043 - Helena TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=3.2 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where 22043 - Helena falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 9 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Montana.

22043 - Helena (78 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 22043 - Helena
22043 - Helena (78 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

22043 - Helena 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MT · Helena

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 98 employers in Helena, MT · 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 163511-New Milford | CT | 163511 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 12336 - Bristol, NH 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Student Transportation, Inc. - ASTI - WILMINGTON 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Anaconda Foundry Fabrication Co. Inc 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE GEO R PIERCE RV-HOMES-LEASING BILLINGS 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAPA Billings DC 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTBUT - BUTTE 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dick Anderson Construction 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1872 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1872 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rocky Mountain Contractors, Main Office 265 FTE
NAT-TCR M3 West Incorporated 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hammond Services 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pattison Metal Fab, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodlands Service Center 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Yorba Linda Water District 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trenton Systems, Inc. 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Old Mill Rehabilitation 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE IES Commercial, Inc - dba Shanahan M&E 78 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.