Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground · Illinois

Buds Ambulance Service

Dolton, IL · ~125 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buds Ambulance Service runs at 512% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade F.

Buds Ambulance Service: 19.4 TCR = 512% of Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buds Ambulance Service safety composite

Buds Ambulance Service scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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 19.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−3.4

2016→2021

Buds Ambulance Service injury rate improved

Buds Ambulance Service's TCR fell 3.4 from 21.1 in 2016 to 17.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 21.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=21.1 · 2021=17.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Dolton, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.4 · 512% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #39/40
  • PHOTO Waco TX Operations
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waco TX Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buds Ambulance Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buds Ambulance Service averages 19.4 TCR (512% of the Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

Buds Ambulance Service TCR series: 2016=21.1 · 2021=17.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Buds Ambulance Service falls in its industry

976 Emergency medical transportati establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 40 Emergency medical transportati employers in Illinois.

Buds Ambulance Service (125 employees, TCR 19.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Buds Ambulance Service
Buds Ambulance Service (125 employees, TCR 19.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Buds Ambulance Service has more employees than the Emergency medical transportation service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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
2021 17.8 2.5 13 8 0
2016 21.1 9.9 26 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · IL · Dolton

976 Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 18 employers in Dolton, IL · 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 Waco TX Operations 19.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spokane Operations 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWA City Of Glendale EMSOperations 19.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Genesis Community Ambulance 19.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Joppa Power Station 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dunnet Bay Main 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE J3 Construction Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westside Mechanical Group Design/Build, LLC. 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ardagh Glass Inc Dolton 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nursing Home 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR DOLTON IL - 3120 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR 708-00566 97 FTE
NAT-TCR Two Men And A Truck 19.4 TCR
NAT-TCR #98 Art Van Warehouse 19.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZYON 19.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kitsap Humane Society 19.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE SearStone-RLA, Inc 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Energy Services 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC Dayton, NJ 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt Industries (Target Container) Display Division 125 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: 2021, 2016. 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.