School bus services · Kansas

96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam

Merriam, KS · ~215 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam: 8.9 TCR = 198% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam safety composite

96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam: 4.3 → 13.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam's TCR rose 9.2 from 4.3 in 2023 to 13.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Merriam, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 198% of ind

  • DART 10.1 DART
  • RANK #18/22
  • PHOTO 2662-3079
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~215 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2662-3079 (0.0 TCR gap)

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96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam averages 8.9 TCR (198% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam TCR series: 2023=4.3 · 2024=13.5 · BLS 4.5

Where 96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #18 safest of 22 School bus services employers in Kansas.

96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam (215 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam
96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam (215 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

96920030-103 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Merriam 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
2024 13.5 10.1 15 1 0
2023 4.3 2.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · KS · Merriam

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 24 employers in Merriam, 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 2662-3079 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-4047 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Crosse Terminal 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joliet Township High School District 204 - Transportation Center 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Scott 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aegis Processing Solutions 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plaza West Care Center 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakemary Center, Inc. (Olathe) 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR IBT, Inc. 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cohen Esrey 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR IKEA #374 Merriam 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aristocrat Motors 157 FTE
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Plano 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Westerlay Orchids LP 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tndik - Dickson Package Center 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wache - Chehalis 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hughes Circuits 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Williamsport Home 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farrell Distributing 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feintool Tennessee, Inc. 215 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.