Employer · Minnesota

Northstar Bus Lines LLC

Maple Grove, MN · ~224 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northstar Bus Lines LLC runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Northstar Bus Lines LLC: 5.1 TCR = 114% of industry BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northstar Bus Lines LLC safety composite

Northstar Bus Lines LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−2.0

2023→2024

Northstar Bus Lines LLC injury rate improved

Northstar Bus Lines LLC's TCR fell 2.0 from 6.2 in 2023 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.2 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Maple Grove, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 114% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #18/45
  • PHOTO STA - Annapolis
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~224 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STA - Annapolis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northstar Bus Lines LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northstar Bus Lines LLC averages 5.1 TCR (114% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Northstar Bus Lines LLC TCR series: 2023=6.2 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Northstar Bus Lines LLC falls in its industry

1,574 industry establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #18 safest of 45 industry employers in Minnesota.

Northstar Bus Lines LLC (224 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Northstar Bus Lines LLC
Northstar Bus Lines LLC (224 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Northstar Bus Lines LLC has more employees than the industry 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 4.1 2.7 6 0 0
2023 6.2 3.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MN · Maple Grove

1,574 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 238 employers in Maple Grove, 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 STA - Annapolis 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR All-Star-Monroe 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holcomb Bus Service 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 483033-Springfield | PA | KBS-650 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Riverside 2700 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connexus Energy 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reckitt (MeadJohnson LLC) 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Print and Visual Impressions - Fridley MN - 0223-MNFR1 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boston Scientific Corporation 5,324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maple Grove Hospital 1,016 FTE
CITY-NEAR MNMPL - MAPLE GROVE 932 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAPLE GROVE (MNMPL) 760 FTE
NAT-TCR ECR International 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sioux Falls Sheraton 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Wire Products 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Veranda Gardens 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE River Glen Health Care Center 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edscha Automotive Michigan 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Entegris, Incorporated 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Worthington Steel Company Chicago 224 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. 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.