Bus operation, school and employee · Minnesota

Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc.

Name: Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lake Crystal, MN · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc. runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc.: 4.5 TCR = 101% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc. safety composite

Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers
DART rate: F 9.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc.: 0.0 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc.'s TCR rose 9.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 9.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Lake Crystal, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 101% of ind

DART 9.1 DART
RANK #17/45
PHOTO SUNRISE SOUTHWEST LLC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SUNRISE SOUTHWEST LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc. averages 4.5 TCR (101% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc. TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc. falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 45 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Minnesota.

Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc. (18 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Palmer Bus Service of Lake Crystal Inc. 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
2024	9.1	9.1	1	0	0
2023	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MN · Lake Crystal

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 13 employers in Lake Crystal, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	SUNRISE SOUTHWEST LLC	CRESTWOOD, IL	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dean Transportation, Inc. - Muskegon-Laketon	MUSKEGON, MI	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	6015 GREAT LAKES REGION-MADEIRA OH	MADEIRA, OH	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	First Student Inc	BINGHAMTON, NY	4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	WPI-Fieldstaff	GAYLORD	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Select Genetics MN Magnum 003-0138-MA	PENNOCK	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mesabi Metallics	NASHWAUK	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Vigen Construction- Erskine	ERSKINE	18 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Crysteel Mfg Inc. (Truck Bodies & Equipment International, Lake Crystal	Lake Crystal	193 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Crysteel Mfg Inc (Truck Bodies and Equipment International)	Lake Crystal	193 FTE
CITY-NEAR	TBEI - Lake Crystal	Lake Crystal	181 FTE
CITY-NEAR	POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal	Lake Crystal	46 FTE
NAT-TCR	1286 Hamburg	Buffalo, NY	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	1921 Geneva	Geneva, IL	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	2584 Reisterstown	Baltimore, MD	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	3919 Quail Springs	Oklahoma City, OK	4.5 TCR

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.

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