School bus services · Kansas

587-Topeka

Topeka, KS · ~87 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

587-Topeka runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade C.

587-Topeka: 5.2 TCR = 115% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

587-Topeka safety composite

587-Topeka scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

587-Topeka: 3.6 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2023

587-Topeka's TCR rose 3.1 from 3.6 in 2022 to 6.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Topeka, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 115% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #11/22
  • PHOTO 393007-Millard | NE …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 393007-Millard | NE | NEB-100 (0.0 TCR gap)

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587-Topeka in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 587-Topeka averages 5.2 TCR (115% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

587-Topeka TCR series: 2022=3.6 · 2023=6.8 · BLS 4.5

Where 587-Topeka falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 22 School bus services employers in Kansas.

587-Topeka (87 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 587-Topeka
587-Topeka (87 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

587-Topeka has more 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 6.8 1.7 4 0 0
2022 3.6 3.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · KS · Topeka

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, KS · 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 393007-Millard | NE | NEB-100 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Methacton 12675 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR All-Star-Seymour 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 96920034-1 PALMERI TRANSPORTATION-PALMERI TRANSPORTATION 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Park Aerospace Technologies Corp 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2205 W WICHITA 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 615-00060 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1065 - Lenexa 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stormont Vail Health - Hospital 2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire Rubber Company 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Topeka 1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus 1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR RK-006-Effingham ( RK-006 ) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2442 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Recycling Center 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR First Line 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE KING CADILLAC BUICK GMC Inc 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE High Peaks Resort Lake Placid 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arte Sano LLC 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eby-Brown Gibsonton 87 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.