Bus operation, school and employee · Minnesota

Kottkes Bus Service,Inc

Andover, MN · ~183 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kottkes Bus Service,Inc runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

Kottkes Bus Service,Inc: 7.6 TCR = 168% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kottkes Bus Service,Inc safety composite

Kottkes Bus Service,Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−18.0

2018→2024

Kottkes Bus Service,Inc injury rate improved

Kottkes Bus Service,Inc's TCR fell 18.0 from 22.2 in 2018 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 22.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=22.2 · 2019=2.5 · 2021=1.0 · 2023=8.0 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Andover, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 168% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #34/45
  • PHOTO Dean Transportation,…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dean Transportation, Inc. - St. Louis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kottkes Bus Service,Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kottkes Bus Service,Inc averages 7.6 TCR (168% 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

Kottkes Bus Service,Inc TCR series: 2018=22.2 · 2019=2.5 · 2021=1 · 2023=8 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Kottkes Bus Service,Inc falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 45 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Minnesota.

Kottkes Bus Service,Inc (183 employees, TCR 7.6) 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 Kottkes Bus Service,Inc
Kottkes Bus Service,Inc (183 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Kottkes Bus Service,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 4.2 2.5 3 2 0
2023 8.0 2.6 9 0 0
2021 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.5 1.7 3 0 0
2018 22.2 11.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MN · Andover

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 34 employers in Andover, MN · 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 Dean Transportation, Inc. - St. Louis 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harlow's School Bus Service - Spokane 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR North LA County 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morongo 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE AP Midwest, LLC 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.S. McCrossan Construction, Inc. 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harris Rochester, Inc. 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aquarius Water Conditioning, Inc 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Andover YMCA Community Center 988 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1999 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1999 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Andover High 190 FTE
NAT-TCR Celebration Village Acworth 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonata Boynton Beach 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Springs Fabrication, LLC 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GS Wood Products LLC 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE SFO 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tailor Welded Blanks Monroe 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kimpton Epic Hotel 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oakland Nursery - Columbus 183 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.