School buses assembling on purchased chassis · Kansas

Collins Bus

South Hutchinson, KS · ~208 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Collins Bus runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School buses assembling on purchased chassis workplace, earning a grade C.

Collins Bus: 3.9 TCR = 119% of School buses assembling on purchased chassis BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Collins Bus safety composite

Collins Bus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Collins Bus: 2.9 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2022

Collins Bus's TCR rose 2.6 from 2.9 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · South Hutchinson, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 119% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Morgan Olson Plant 6
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~208 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morgan Olson Plant 6 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Collins Bus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Collins Bus averages 3.9 TCR (119% of the School buses assembling on purchased chassis BLS benchmark).

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

Collins Bus TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=4.8 · 2022=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Collins Bus falls in its industry

470 School buses assembling on pur establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 School buses assembling on pur employers in Kansas.

Collins Bus (208 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 Collins Bus
Collins Bus (208 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Collins Bus has more employees than the School buses assembling on purchased cha median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2022 5.4 1.6 10 0 0
2019 4.8 0.4 12 0 0
2018 2.6 0.4 7 0 0
2016 2.9 0.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · KS · South Hutchinson

470 School buses assembling on purchased chassis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 10 employers in South Hutchinson, 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 Morgan Olson Plant 6 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgan Olson Plants 1, 2, &3 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MG MOH 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardone ADP 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fullmer Cattle Company 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1691 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE 110001 - KPC-OH Project 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Horizons Mental Health Center 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hutchinson Plant 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mennonite Friendship Communities 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Salt - South Hutchinson, KS 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Salt 120 FTE
NAT-TCR Northhaven Place 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowman Place 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Coolsys Eastern Refrigeration 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor At Woodside 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marzetti Frozen Pasta - Altoona 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Humphreys Half Moon Inn and Suites 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fountains at Boca Ciega Bay 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doss Enterprises L.C. 208 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: 2022, 2019, 2018, 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.