School bus services · New Jersey

Paterson

Paterson, NJ · ~85 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paterson runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

Paterson: 7.3 TCR = 161% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paterson safety composite

Paterson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−1.8

2016→2024

Paterson injury rate improved

Paterson's TCR fell 1.8 from 7.8 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2017=2.0 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=11.3 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=10.3 · 2024=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Paterson, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #43/48
  • PHOTO First Student Wayzata
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Student Wayzata (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paterson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paterson averages 7.3 TCR (161% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Paterson TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=2 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=11.3 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=10.3 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Paterson falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 48 School bus services employers in New Jersey.

Paterson (85 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 Paterson
Paterson (85 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Paterson 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 6.1 4.8 5 0 0
2023 10.3 8.0 9 0 0
2022 10.6 9.5 10 0 0
2021 5.5 5.5 5 0 0
2020 11.3 10.2 9 1 0
2019 6.3 5.0 5 0 0
2018 5.5 5.5 4 0 0
2017 2.0 1.0 4 0 0
2016 7.8 5.9 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · NJ · Paterson

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 76 employers in Paterson, NJ · 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 First Student Wayzata 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milwaukee Terminal 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-3071 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town & Country Yellow Cab Co Inc 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE KF Mechanical LLC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paulaur Corporation 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE G.A. Productions, LLC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wayne NJ (Riverview Dr) Depot 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6164-PATERSON 4,413 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Health & Med Center 4,220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Preakness Healthcare Center 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&K Ingredients LLC 323 FTE
NAT-TCR IL014 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CableCom, LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Court of Peru 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Humtown Products, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harrison Springs Health Campus 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wellbrooke of Wabash 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oakdale 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Helms Bros Inc 85 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.