School bus merchant wholesalers · New York

Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa

Name: Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ballston Spa, NY · ~132 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical School bus merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa: 1.5 TCR = 70% of School bus merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa safety composite

Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa: 0.6 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.6 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Ballston Spa, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 70% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #6/44
PHOTO Prevost - Mira Loma,…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prevost - Mira Loma, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ron Marhofer B

1.6
This site

1.5
Prevost - Mira

1.5
Truck Centers,

1.5
ADESA : Housto

1.5

What this shows Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa averages 1.5 TCR (70% of the School bus merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa TCR series: 2017=0.6 · 2018=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa falls in its industry

1,333 School bus merchant wholesaler establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 44 School bus merchant wholesaler employers in New York.

Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa (132 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Matthews Buses, Inc. - Ballston Spa has more employees than the School bus merchant wholesalers 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
2018	2.5	0.0	2	0	0
2017	0.6	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · NY · Ballston Spa

1,333 School bus merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 31 employers in Ballston Spa, NY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Prevost - Mira Loma, CA	MIRA LOMA, CA	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Truck Centers, Inc. - St Louis	ST LOUIS, MO	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ADESA : Houston	HOUSTON, TX	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ron Marhofer Buick GMC	NORTH CANTON, OH	1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sungrow Albion LLC (formerly known as Intergrow Greenhouses)	ALBION	132 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hamptonburgh, NY	HAMPTOMBURGH	132 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NYSEG Elmira	HORSEHEADS	132 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bast Hatfield Construction	CLIFTON PAKR	132 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Curtis Lumber Co. Inc. Ballston Spa	Ballston Spa	303 FTE
CITY-NEAR	8394	Ballston Spa	197 FTE
CITY-NEAR	00-43 Ridge - Corp	Ballston Spa	176 FTE
CITY-NEAR	08447 - Store # 8447 Ballston Spa	Ballston Spa	135 FTE
NAT-TCR	G&W NC Laboratories, LLC	Lincolnton, NC	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chicago Bakery Manufacturing Facility	Chicago, IL	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	MB-Houston	Houston, TX	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fashion Centre Pentagon City	Arlington, VA	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bemis North America - Boscobel	Boscobel, WI	132 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Chantland Company	Humboldt, IA	132 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Penske : 4308-00 Delphi Packard DCM/El Paso, TX	El Paso, TX	132 FTE
NAT-SIZE	HES Houston Spring	Spring, TX	132 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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