Bus operation, school and employee · Pennsylvania

David Eschbach Jr. Inc

Holtwood, PA · ~118 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

David Eschbach Jr. Inc runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade B.

David Eschbach Jr. Inc: 2.8 TCR = 62% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

David Eschbach Jr. Inc safety composite

David Eschbach Jr. Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

David Eschbach Jr. Inc: 1.6 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024

David Eschbach Jr. Inc's TCR rose 3.7 from 1.6 in 2017 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 62% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #68/227
  • PHOTO 10457 Newberg
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 10457 Newberg (0.0 TCR gap)

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David Eschbach Jr. Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows David Eschbach Jr. Inc averages 2.8 TCR (62% 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

David Eschbach Jr. Inc TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=1.4 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 4.5

Where David Eschbach Jr. Inc falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #68 safest of 227 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Pennsylvania.

David Eschbach Jr. Inc (118 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 David Eschbach Jr. Inc
David Eschbach Jr. Inc (118 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

David Eschbach Jr. Inc has more employees than the Bus operation, school and employee 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
2024 5.3 2.7 4 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2020 5.7 0.0 4 0 0
2019 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2018 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2017 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · PA · Holtwood

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 5 employers in Holtwood, 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 10457 Newberg 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20785 Miami Valley 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student Mill St. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 96920033-2 HUNTINGTON COACH, LLC-THIRD AVENUE 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wholesale tree nursery 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE P.W. Campbell Contracting Co 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE E.K. Services, Inc. 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pleasant Gap Office & Dispatch Office 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holtwood PA 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR 31308 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookfield Renewable - Holtwood 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Risser Grain - Holtwood 17 FTE
NAT-TCR WCP Westerville 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Plains Industries, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Igloo Products Corp 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Coldkeepers W1 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cramer and Associates 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE HMC Service Company 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tacoma Distribution Center 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Service Connection - 1015 118 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.