Bus operation, school and employee · Minnesota

Palmer Bus Service of St. Cloud Inc.

Name: Palmer Bus Service of St. Cloud Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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St. Cloud, MN · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.6
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Palmer Bus Service of St. Cloud Inc. runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade F.

Palmer Bus Service of St. Cloud Inc.: 9.6 TCR = 212% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Bus Service of St. Cloud Inc. safety composite

Palmer Bus Service of St. Cloud Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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).

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 St. Cloud Inc.: 1.4 → 23.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 23.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

Palmer Bus Service of St. Cloud Inc.'s TCR rose 22.2 from 1.4 in 2022 to 23.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · St. Cloud, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 212% of ind

DART 7.9 DART
RANK #41/45
PHOTO Folsom Cordova Unifi…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Folsom Cordova Unified School District - Transportation Dept. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Folsom Cordova

9.7
Dean Transport

9.7
12667 - Euclid

9.7
This site

9.6
20305 - Newman

9.5

What this shows Palmer Bus Service of St. Cloud Inc. averages 9.6 TCR (212% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

Palmer Bus Service of St. Cloud Inc. TCR series: 2022=1.4 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=23.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Palmer Bus Service of St. Cloud Inc. falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 45 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Minnesota.

Palmer Bus Service of St. Cloud Inc. (70 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Palmer Bus Service of St. Cloud 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
2024	23.7	7.9	6	0
2023	3.6	3.6	1	0
2022	1.4	0.7	2	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MN · St. Cloud

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 130 employers in St. Cloud, 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	Folsom Cordova Unified School District - Transportation Dept.	RANCHO CORDOVA, CA	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dean Transportation, Inc. - Muskegon-Giles	MUSKEGON, MI	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	20305 - Newman	NEWMAN, CA	9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	12667 - Euclid	EUCLID, OH	9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Harmony	HARMONY	70 FTE
STATE-SIZE	St. Cloud Service Center	ST. CLOUD	70 FTE
STATE-SIZE	H2I Group	MINNEAPOLIS	70 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Northern Valley Machine	EAST GRAND FORKS	70 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CentraCare St. Cloud Hospital	St. Cloud	4,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Cloud Hospital	St. Cloud	4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Cloud State University	St. Cloud	1,454 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CentraCare Health Plaza	St. Cloud	928 FTE
NAT-TCR	Las Vegas Warehouse	Las Vegas, NV	9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sonesta Irvine Orange County Airport	Irvine, CA	9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Vista Grande Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center	Cortez, CO	9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cardinal Court	Strongsville, OH	9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	1105 Anderson	Anderson, SC	70 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1924 Fairview Heights	O Fallon, IL	70 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1956 Machesney Park	Machesney Park, IL	70 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1984 Champaign	Champaign, IL	70 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.