School bus services · Kansas

96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe

Olathe, KS · ~224 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade F.

96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe: 9.1 TCR = 202% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe safety composite

96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−3.8

2023→2024

96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe injury rate improved

96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe's TCR fell 3.8 from 11.0 in 2023 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=11.0 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 202% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #20/22
  • PHOTO 483020-East Penn | P…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~224 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 483020-East Penn | PA | KBS-825 (0.0 TCR gap)

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96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe averages 9.1 TCR (202% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe TCR series: 2023=11 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 4.5

Where 96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #20 safest of 22 School bus services employers in Kansas.

96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe (224 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe
96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe (224 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

96920030-105 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Olathe 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 7.2 0.9 7 1 0
2023 11.0 7.3 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · KS · Olathe

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 232 employers in Olathe, 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 483020-East Penn | PA | KBS-825 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3062 CENTRAL REGION-AMES 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dean Transportation Inc. - North Branch 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student Inc 12096 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE KGP Telecommunications, LLC - Olathe 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Hospital Onaga 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Villa St. Francis Catholic Care Center Inc 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Company Wide 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR Garmin International - Olathe 7,006 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terracon Consultants Inc 4,405 FTE
CITY-NEAR DH Pace Company Inc. 893 FTE
CITY-NEAR TVH Parts Co. America's HQ 719 FTE
NAT-TCR North Florida Sales Lake City 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Source, LLC (GHR07) 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4172 Uniontown 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 10252 Lincoln Park 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE AstroTurf 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Ocala 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Worthington Steel Company Chicago 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edscha Automotive Michigan 224 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.