Bus operation, school and employee · California

North LA County

Lancaster, CA · ~57 workers · 4 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

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

North LA County: 7.6 TCR = 168% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North LA County safety composite

North LA County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

North LA County: 0.0 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2021

North LA County's TCR rose 10.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 10.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Lancaster, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 168% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #83/119
  • PHOTO Morongo
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morongo (0.0 TCR gap)

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North LA County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North LA County 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

North LA County TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=9.8 · 2019=9.8 · 2021=10.8 · BLS 4.5

Where North LA County 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 California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #83 safest of 119 Bus operation, school and empl employers in California.

North LA County (57 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 North LA County
North LA County (57 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

North LA County has fewer 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 10.8 7.2 2 1 0
2019 9.8 3.3 3 0 0
2018 9.8 9.8 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CA · Lancaster

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 131 employers in Lancaster, CA · 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 Morongo 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dean Transportation, Inc. - St. Louis 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kottkes Bus Service,Inc 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harlow's School Bus Service - Spokane 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowles Farming Company 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blanc Vineyards, LLC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE MI RANCHITO FARMING INC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmland Management Services 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Antelope Valley Union High School District 3,219 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 549 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR California State Prison-Los Angeles County 1,505 FTE
CITY-NEAR BYD Coach & Bus LLC 679 FTE
NAT-TCR Greenville Headquarters 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Awg - Norfolk 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Woods on French Creek 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Seagrave Fire Appartus 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bickford of Overland Park 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Juvenile Detention Center 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barker Steel - Baltimore Maryland 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kerr Corporation 57 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.