School bus services · Minnesota

Palmer Bus Service of New London-Spicer, Inc.

New London, MN · ~72 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmer Bus Service of New London-Spicer, Inc. runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade B.

Palmer Bus Service of New London-Spicer, Inc.: 2.3 TCR = 50% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Bus Service of New London-Spicer, Inc. safety composite

Palmer Bus Service of New London-Spicer, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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 New London-Spicer, Inc. injury rate improved

Palmer Bus Service of New London-Spicer, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.1 from 4.9 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.9 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · New London, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/45
  • PHOTO Setauket
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Setauket (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmer Bus Service of New London-Spicer, 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 New London-Spicer, Inc. averages 2.3 TCR (50% 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 New London-Spicer, Inc. TCR series: 2022=4.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Palmer Bus Service of New London-Spicer, Inc. falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #7 safest of 45 School bus services employers in Minnesota.

Palmer Bus Service of New London-Spicer, Inc. (72 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 New London-Spicer, Inc.
Palmer Bus Service of New London-Spicer, Inc. (72 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Palmer Bus Service of New London-Spicer, Inc. has fewer 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 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MN · New London

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 16 employers in New London, 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 Setauket 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moffitt 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 26000 Bethel 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dell Transportation Corp. 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Jackson JAC1 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACI Asphalt and Concrete, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Production Services Inc 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Soybean Processors 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR New London-Spicer Schools 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of New London 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Woods Elementary 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crow River Construction LLC 44 FTE
NAT-TCR GRAD Columbia 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rifenburg Contracting Corporation 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Framingham Hotel 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 5315E-Colorado Springs Main Office 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Inland Powder Coating Corp 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE RK Energy, LLC 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenbriar Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1542 Canon City 72 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.