School bus services · Kansas

96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper

Kansas City, KS · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade B.

96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper: 2.9 TCR = 65% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper safety composite

96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper: 0.0 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper's TCR rose 5.8 from 0.0 in 2023 to 5.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Kansas City, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 65% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #5/22
  • PHOTO 11928 Millcreek
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 11928 Millcreek (0.0 TCR gap)

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96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper averages 2.9 TCR (65% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 4.5

Where 96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #5 safest of 22 School bus services employers in Kansas.

96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper (38 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper
96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper (38 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

96920030-106 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Piper has fewer employees than the School bus services 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
2024 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · KS · Kansas City

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kansas City, 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 11928 Millcreek 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20619 Derry 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-4133 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-4059 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Sublette 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friona Cattle Feeders North #1 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Plains Cattle Company LLC - Sublette 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Irsik and Doll Feed Yard 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MKC6 3,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MKC6 2,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfax Assembly and Stamping 2,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR PROVIDENCE MEDICAL CENTER 1,091 FTE
NAT-TCR Minnesuing Acres 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ventura Foods - Opelousas 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Comanche 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0039 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE El Rey Court 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Corona 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Strada Pipeline, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valdosta Office 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: 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.