School bus services · Minnesota

Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc.

Austin, MN · ~117 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc. runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc.: 1.0 TCR = 23% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc. safety composite

Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.1

2022→2024

Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc. injury rate improved

Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.1 from 3.1 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Austin, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 23% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/45
  • PHOTO 20594 West Warwick
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 20594 West Warwick (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc. averages 1.0 TCR (23% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc. TCR series: 2022=3.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc. falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 95% 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 #3 safest of 45 School bus services employers in Minnesota.

Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc. (117 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc.
Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc. (117 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc. has more employees than the School bus services 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MN · Austin

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Austin, 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 20594 West Warwick 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 143008-Tulare/Visalia | CA | SAN-549 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR STA - Pine-Richland 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE WLS NextEra Analytics St Paul 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gardner Builders 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chard Excavating 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laketown Electric Corporation 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods - Austin 1,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods - Austin Plant 1,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods Corporation 1,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Pork Processors Inc. 1,208 FTE
NAT-TCR Mercedes Medical LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR George Dieter 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Majestic Steel - Bedford Heights 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR REC Manufacturing Inc DBA PlasTech Molding Solutions 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jenkins Hyundai of Leesburg 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bangor 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amware Pallet Services - Pico Rivera 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1281 Staten Island South 117 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, 2022. 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.