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Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell

Kalispell, MT · ~28 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade C.

Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell: 4.8 TCR = 106% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell safety composite

Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell held a steady TCR band

Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 13.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=13.2 · 2018=10.0 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=4.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Kalispell, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO First Student - Bethel
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Student - Bethel (0.0 TCR gap)

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Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell averages 4.8 TCR (106% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=13.2 · 2018=10 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=4.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 School bus services employers in Montana.

Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell (28 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell
Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell (28 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Kalispell has fewer employees than the School bus services 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2019 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2018 10.0 5.0 2 0 0
2017 13.2 6.6 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MT · Kalispell

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 117 employers in Kalispell, MT · 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 - Bethel 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 363-St Louis Brown 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR First student Ellington 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20624 Gouverneur 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Montana Dakota Utilities - Glendive, MT 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Sky Build, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Construction 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jeffery Contracting 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kalispell Regional Medical Center 2,715 FTE
CITY-NEAR Logan Health Medical Center (formerly Kalispell Regional Medical Center) 2,601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Logan Health (formerly Kalispell Regional Healthcare-System) 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR MTK01, Applied Materials, Semi Tool Main 406 FTE
NAT-TCR Landmark Chrysler-Jeep-Fiat, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1478 PITTSBURGH, PA 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 10407 Bend (WO) 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eversource - Brockton 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Van Winden's Garden Center 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dayspring Villa 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific View 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE JH Dunning Corp. 28 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: 2023, 2022, 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.