School bus services · Minnesota

Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated

Glenwood, MN · ~87 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated: 7.5 TCR = 166% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated safety composite

Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated: 7.5 → 14.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated's TCR rose 7.3 from 7.5 in 2022 to 14.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Glenwood, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #33/45
  • PHOTO Wall 20041
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wall 20041 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated averages 7.5 TCR (166% 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 Minnewaska Incorporated TCR series: 2022=7.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=14.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #33 safest of 45 School bus services employers in Minnesota.

Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated (87 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 Minnewaska Incorporated
Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated (87 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Palmer Bus Service of Minnewaska Incorporated has more employees than the School bus services 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 14.8 0.0 6 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 7.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MN · Glenwood

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 15 employers in Glenwood, 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 Wall 20041 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elmbrook Terminal 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2038 WEST REGION-SAN BERNARDINO CA 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR STA-Pueblo 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE LS Black 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minger Construction Companies Incorporated 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herzog Roofing 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Egan Company - Rochester, MN 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glacial Ridge Health System 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glenwood 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnewaska Area Schools #2149 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnewaska Area HS 121 FTE
NAT-TCR Brandywine Living at Savoy 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkway Operator LLC 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Heirloom Market 106553 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Valiant Delivery Service, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE F.M. Generator, inc. 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSL-The Village at Rancho Solano 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Ridge Health and Rehab Center 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1303 Fairbanks 87 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.