School bus services · Minnesota

Palmer Bus Service of Princeton, Inc.

Name: Palmer Bus Service of Princeton, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Princeton, MN · ~73 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.7
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Palmer Bus Service of Princeton, Inc. runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

Palmer Bus Service of Princeton, Inc.: 0.7 TCR = 15% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Bus Service of Princeton, Inc. safety composite

Palmer Bus Service of Princeton, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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 Princeton, Inc.: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 3.01× in 2024

Palmer Bus Service of Princeton, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 15% of ind

DART 2.1 DART
RANK #2/45
PHOTO 12382 Syracuse West
BOOK 3y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 12382 Syracuse West (0.0 TCR gap)

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12382 Syracuse

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4107 EAST REGI

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96920005-1 LEE

0.7
IC ESCORT

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What this shows Palmer Bus Service of Princeton, Inc. averages 0.7 TCR (15% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

Palmer Bus Service of Princeton, Inc. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 4.5

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

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 45 School bus services employers in Minnesota.

Palmer Bus Service of Princeton, Inc. (73 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Palmer Bus Service of Princeton, 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
2024	2.1	2.1	1
2023	0.0	0.0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MN · Princeton

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 45 employers in Princeton, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	12382 Syracuse West	SYRACUSE, NY	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	4107 EAST REGION-BRENTWOOD NH	FREMONT, NH	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	96920005-1 LEESEL TRANSPORTATION CORP.-LEESEL - BRONX	BRONX, NY	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	IC ESCORT	STATEN ISLAND, NY	0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	City of Sleepy Eye	SLEEPY EYE	73 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kellington	MINNEAPOLIS	73 FTE
STATE-SIZE	D&D Shop - 23405 Ct Rd 10 Corcoran	CORCORAN	73 FTE
STATE-SIZE	U.S. SiteWork, Inc.	ELK RIVER	73 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FV Northland Medical Center	Princeton	504 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Crystal Cabinet Works, Inc.	Princeton	456 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 3102	Princeton	315 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Princeton1	Princeton	259 FTE
NAT-TCR	Stryker-JR Runnemede NJ	Runnemede, NJ	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	West Monroe LA Mill	West Monroe, LA	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	GRAD Iowa City	Iowa City, IA	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pure Logistics USA LLC	Detroit, MI	0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Paris Health and Rehab	Paris, IL	73 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Highland Health Care Center	Highland, IL	73 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1119 Greenville	Greenville, SC	73 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1942 Woodridge	Woodridge, IL	73 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.

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