School bus services · Minnesota

Bus Garage

New Prague, MN · ~43 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bus Garage runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade C.

Bus Garage: 5.2 TCR = 116% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bus Garage safety composite

Bus Garage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Bus Garage: 0.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2024

Bus Garage's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · New Prague, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 116% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #19/45
  • PHOTO Dean Transportation,…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bus Garage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bus Garage averages 5.2 TCR (116% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

Bus Garage TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=10 · 2021=10 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Bus Garage falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 45 School bus services employers in Minnesota.

Bus Garage (43 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Bus Garage
Bus Garage (43 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Bus Garage 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 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2022 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 10.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 10.0 10.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MN · New Prague

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 36 employers in New Prague, MN · 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 Dean Transportation, Inc. - GR 44th 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 97390001-LOT09 BOE - LOT 09 - BLADENSBURG 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-2017 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clearfield School Bus 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edina Service Center 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wigen Water Technologies 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar Multi-Family - Central (MN) 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chart Inc 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Prague 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR DenWin Inc 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-New Prague (Hosp) 198 FTE
NAT-TCR R.M. Sullivan Transportation Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Smithfield Foods 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Binghamton NY FXFE-BGM 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Florida Exterior 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Russell Building Supply 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE ORBIS Troy 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coldwater 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rotoflow Houston 43 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.