School bus services · Missouri

96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton

Belton, MO · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade C.

96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton: 5.0 TCR = 112% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton safety composite

96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−0.4

2023→2024

96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton injury rate improved

96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton's TCR fell 0.4 from 5.2 in 2023 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.2 · 2024=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Belton, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 112% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #27/48
  • PHOTO B.H. Goodman Bus Ser…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: B.H. Goodman Bus Service, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton averages 5.0 TCR (112% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton TCR series: 2023=5.2 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 4.5

Where 96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 48 School bus services employers in Missouri.

96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton (68 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton
96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton (68 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

96920030-200 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Belton 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
2024 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2023 5.2 5.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MO · Belton

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 38 employers in Belton, MO · 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 B.H. Goodman Bus Service, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-3084 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCarter Bus Garage 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sedalia Growout 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE 033 - Substation Maintenance Metro 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mentz 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABI CORPORATION 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belton Regional Medical Center 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belton Branch 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR QNT - Belton 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR QT Kitchens - Belton 258 FTE
NAT-TCR PepperCo USA 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Health and Rehabilitation Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunset Stone 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CornellCookson 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Capital Spring 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rudolph Foods Company New Hebron 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Pointe 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blanca Potato 68 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.

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