Bus operation, school and employee · Pennsylvania

Gross School Bus Services

Pottstown, PA · ~119 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gross School Bus Services runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

Gross School Bus Services: 4.4 TCR = 98% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gross School Bus Services safety composite

Gross School Bus Services scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

−9.5

2018→2021

Gross School Bus Services injury rate improved

Gross School Bus Services's TCR fell 9.5 from 11.3 in 2018 to 1.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.3 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 98% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #115/227
  • PHOTO First Student Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Student Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gross School Bus Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gross School Bus Services averages 4.4 TCR (98% 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

Gross School Bus Services TCR series: 2018=11.3 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Gross School Bus Services falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #115 safest of 227 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Pennsylvania.

Gross School Bus Services (119 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Gross School Bus Services
Gross School Bus Services (119 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Gross School Bus Services 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
2021 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.7 3.1 3 0 0
2018 11.3 6.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · PA · Pottstown

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee 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 First Student Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20236 Junction City 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-4093 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 12727 Long Beach 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Youngblood Paving Inc 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nolan Painting 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edward Marc Brands, Inc. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanover Foods Center HAll 119 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 Majco Inc DBA Big Brand Tire & Service 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SDC, LLC dba Dowbuilt 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR L&T Construction - Other 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Service Transport Group, INC 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE E3 Electric, Ltd 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Interactions Inc. dba Hoosier Refreshment Co. 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reasors21 119 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.