Bus operation, school and employee · Pennsylvania

D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc.

Lebanon, PA · ~196 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc. runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc.: 8.3 TCR = 184% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc. safety composite

D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 30% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc.: 6.7 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 16.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.8 from 6.7 in 2016 to 12.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 16.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Lebanon, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.3 · 184% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #196/227
  • PHOTO Trumbull
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 63 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trumbull (0.0 TCR gap)

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D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc. averages 8.3 TCR (184% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

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

D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc. TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=16.9 · 2020=11.5 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=2 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=12.4 · BLS 4.5

Where D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc. falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #196 safest of 227 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Pennsylvania.

D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc. (196 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc.
D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc. (196 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc. has more employees than the Bus operation, school and employee 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 12.4 4.1 5 1 0
2023 8.7 6.8 9 0 0
2022 2.0 0.0 2 0 0
2021 6.3 0.0 5 1 0
2020 11.5 5.8 8 0 1
2019 16.9 7.5 18 0 0
2018 6.7 2.2 6 0 0
2017 3.1 1.0 3 0 0
2016 6.7 3.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · PA · Lebanon

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 114 employers in Lebanon, 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 Trumbull 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-3040 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR School Bus Inc. 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE JWCF, LP 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kistler O'Brien Fire Protection 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Team Ten LLC dba American Eagle Paper Mills 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pratt Industries, Allentown Corrugated, LLC 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedar Haven Healthcare Center 1,107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Hospital 939 FTE
CITY-NEAR Philhaven 766 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7377 623 FTE
NAT-TCR Doctors Hospital dba Ascentist Hospital 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Woodlands of Columbus 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 135 North Richland Hills 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Crest HOA Manager 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cascade Designs INC 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fayetteville Center for nursing and healing 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Press-Seal Corporation 196 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, 2018, 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.