School bus services · Minnesota

Palmer Bus Service of Waseca Inc.

Waseca, MN · ~33 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmer Bus Service of Waseca Inc. runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

Palmer Bus Service of Waseca Inc.: 8.8 TCR = 196% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Bus Service of Waseca Inc. safety composite

Palmer Bus Service of Waseca Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 Waseca Inc.: 0.0 → 26.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 26.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2024

Palmer Bus Service of Waseca Inc.'s TCR rose 26.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 26.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.8 · 196% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #39/45
  • PHOTO Joliet Township High…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Joliet Township High School District 204 - Transportation Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmer Bus Service of Waseca 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 Waseca Inc. averages 8.8 TCR (196% 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 Waseca Inc. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=26.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Palmer Bus Service of Waseca Inc. falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #39 safest of 45 School bus services employers in Minnesota.

Palmer Bus Service of Waseca Inc. (33 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 Waseca Inc.
Palmer Bus Service of Waseca Inc. (33 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Palmer Bus Service of Waseca Inc. has fewer 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 26.5 6.6 3 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MN · Waseca

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 40 employers in Waseca, 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 Joliet Township High School District 204 - Transportation Center 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Student Transportation of America 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Crosse Terminal 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 97390001-LOT36 BOE - LOT 36 - DOUGLASS FAB 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Perham Egg LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gorans Brothers Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Las Vegas Raiders 17150004 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loeffler Construction & Consulting 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Correctional Institution 833 FTE
CITY-NEAR WASECA MN 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cinch Connectivity Solutions 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1038 181 FTE
NAT-TCR Universal Healthcare Holdings LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Plastic Products Company-Phoenix West 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmond in - 3227 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lile International Companies Branch 208 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lile International Companies Branch 224 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homewood Suites Oakland Waterfront 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSL-Magnolia Place of Roswell 33 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.