Motor coach operation, interurban and rural · Wisconsin

Sam Van Galder Bus

Janesville, WI · ~206 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Sam Van Galder Bus runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor coach operation, interurban and rural workplace, earning a grade D.

Sam Van Galder Bus: 5.7 TCR = 127% of Motor coach operation, interurban and rural BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam Van Galder Bus safety composite

Sam Van Galder Bus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Sam Van Galder Bus: 2.7 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2017

Sam Van Galder Bus's TCR rose 6.1 from 2.7 in 2016 to 8.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485210 · Janesville, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 127% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK P32
  • PHOTO Concord Coach Lines,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~206 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Concord Coach Lines, Inc. - Portland Transportation Center (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sam Van Galder Bus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sam Van Galder Bus averages 5.7 TCR (127% of the Motor coach operation, interurban and rural BLS benchmark).

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

Sam Van Galder Bus TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=8.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Sam Van Galder Bus falls in its industry

161 Motor coach operation, interur establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sam Van Galder Bus (206 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sam Van Galder Bus
Sam Van Galder Bus (206 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Sam Van Galder Bus has more employees than the Motor coach operation, interurban and ru median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2017 8.8 8.3 19 0 1
2016 2.7 2.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485210 · WI · Janesville

161 Motor coach operation, interurban and rural employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 178 employers in Janesville, WI · 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 Concord Coach Lines, Inc. - Portland Transportation Center 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Estuary Transit District d.b.a. 9 Town Transit 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Services 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lenzner Coach Lines 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Riley Construction Company, Inc. 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE JWM Coenen 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lyons Magnus North 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seda North America, Inc. 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR Service Center Operations : 0780 1,158 FTE
CITY-NEAR US - Supply Chain : 0780 1,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR 780 - JANESVILLE, WI 964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seneca Foods Corporation 650 FTE
NAT-TCR FDC St. Louis 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3135 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland Heights Hub (Ohhht) 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Solivita 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Augusta (Gaaug) 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hospital Central Services Corpoation 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millwork Albany 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE HTXRS01 206 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: 2017, 2016. 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.