School bus services · Illinois

562-Waterloo

Waterloo, IL · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

562-Waterloo runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade F.

562-Waterloo: 10.6 TCR = 236% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

562-Waterloo safety composite

562-Waterloo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−4.9

2022→2023

562-Waterloo injury rate improved

562-Waterloo's TCR fell 4.9 from 13.1 in 2022 to 8.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=13.1 · 2023=8.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Waterloo, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 236% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #100/110
  • PHOTO First Student - San …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Student - San Jose (0.0 TCR gap)

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562-Waterloo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 562-Waterloo averages 10.6 TCR (236% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

562-Waterloo TCR series: 2022=13.1 · 2023=8.2 · BLS 4.5

Where 562-Waterloo falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #100 safest of 110 School bus services employers in Illinois.

562-Waterloo (38 employees, TCR 10.6) 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 562-Waterloo
562-Waterloo (38 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

562-Waterloo has fewer employees than the School bus services 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 8.2 4.1 2 0 0
2022 13.1 8.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · IL · Waterloo

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 20 employers in Waterloo, IL · 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 First Student - San Jose 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tumwater School District Transportation Facility 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dean Transportation, Inc. - Cedar Springs 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dean Transportation, Inc. - Roscommon 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Gibson City, IL 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 629 - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freeport 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 328 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR 328 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wm. Nobbe & Company 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR OakHill 199 FTE
NAT-TCR Pacific Seafood Las Vegas, LLC 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Super Stop & Shop 0682 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Revere Terminal 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-01322 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE MCRT Midland 3 Tenant LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northeast Lubricants, Ltd. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercer Milling Co. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn 38 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.