School bus services · Pennsylvania

Custer's Garage Inc.

Pottstown, PA · ~156 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Custer's Garage Inc. runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

Custer's Garage Inc.: 1.6 TCR = 36% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Custer's Garage Inc. safety composite

Custer's Garage Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−1.3

2016→2017

Custer's Garage Inc. injury rate improved

Custer's Garage Inc.'s TCR fell 1.3 from 2.2 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.2 · 2017=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Pottstown, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 36% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/227
  • PHOTO 20055 Walden Ave
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 20055 Walden Ave (0.0 TCR gap)

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Custer's Garage Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Custer's Garage Inc. averages 1.6 TCR (36% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

Custer's Garage Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=1 · BLS 4.5

Where Custer's Garage Inc. falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 227 School bus services employers in Pennsylvania.

Custer's Garage Inc. (156 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Custer's Garage Inc.
Custer's Garage Inc. (156 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Custer's Garage Inc. 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
2017 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 2.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · PA · Pottstown

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 110 employers in Pottstown, PA · 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 20055 Walden Ave 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dean Transportation, Inc. - Trenton 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3074 WEST REGION-MT PLEASANT TX 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DATTCO - Plainfield 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Basciani Foods, Inc 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE TIS - PA - Morrisville 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE HSC Builders & Construction Managers 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Pietrini Corporation 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pottstown Hospital LLC 888 FTE
CITY-NEAR Limerick Generating Station 775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pottstown Plant 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckman's Inc. 316 FTE
NAT-TCR New York Location #04 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FH Paschen 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Navajo 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hawthorne Ridge 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Office 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE McNaughton & Gunn 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0024 0063 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Wales Center (Fllkw) 156 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.