School bus services · New Mexico

96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces

Las Cruces, NM · ~168 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade B.

96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces: 3.0 TCR = 66% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces safety composite

96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces: 1.0 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2024

96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces's TCR rose 3.9 from 1.0 in 2023 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Las Cruces, NM AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 66% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK P69
  • PHOTO Smith Bus Company, I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smith Bus Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces averages 3.0 TCR (66% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces TCR series: 2023=1 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where 96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces 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
96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces (168 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces
96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces (168 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

96920030-600 Ds Bus Lines, Inc.-Las Cruces has more 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 4.9 2.9 5 0 0
2023 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · NM · Las Cruces

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,241 rated employers in New Mexico with headcount on file · 151 employers in Las Cruces, NM · 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 Smith Bus Company, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Z Transportation LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BRANDYWINE MIFFLIN TRANSPORTATION LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-4033 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Albquerque Asphalt 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2539 LOWE S OF CENTRAL ALBUQUERQUE NM 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10420 Indian School Plaza (WO) 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Le Peep 2 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Mexico State University 6,466 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHC-LAS CRUCES INC 1,408 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountain View Regional Medical Center 1,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center 1,306 FTE
NAT-TCR Badgerland De Pere 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chem32 LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0348 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0234 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Shore Place 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Simpson and Brown 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forest Hill 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nutrivo, LLC 168 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.