Bus operation, school and employee · Minnesota

Schmitty & Sons

Lakeville, MN · ~640 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Schmitty & Sons runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

Schmitty & Sons: 5.8 TCR = 129% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Schmitty & Sons safety composite

Schmitty & Sons scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−2.6

2019→2020

Schmitty & Sons injury rate improved

Schmitty & Sons's TCR fell 2.6 from 7.1 in 2019 to 4.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.1 · 2020=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Lakeville, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 129% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #22/45
  • PHOTO 6700 WEST REGION-BLU…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~640 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6700 WEST REGION-BLUE VALLEY KS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Schmitty & Sons in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Schmitty & Sons averages 5.8 TCR (129% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

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

Schmitty & Sons TCR series: 2019=7.1 · 2020=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Schmitty & Sons falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #22 safest of 45 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Minnesota.

Schmitty & Sons (640 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Schmitty & Sons
Schmitty & Sons (640 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Schmitty & Sons has more 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 Fatalities
2020 4.5 1.6 16 4 0
2019 7.1 2.6 38 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MN · Lakeville

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 141 employers in Lakeville, 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 6700 WEST REGION-BLUE VALLEY KS 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hollidaysburg School Bus Garage 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hattiesburg 12728 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 580-Vallivue 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1043 - Eagan 640 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glencoe 640 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Ulm Medical Center 640 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benchmark Electronics Minnesota Division Winona 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeville Technical Center 645 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods Solutions 634 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1484 - Lakeville 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeville South HS (LSHS) 363 FTE
NAT-TCR Sam Houston TX 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR New York Environmental Systems, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4128 VAN NUYS, CA 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR C&B-Pinnacle Clearwater FL 350 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1969-MH1 640 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amzl : Dck1 640 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thompson Pk Medical Ctr Campus 640 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilmer Terminal - DOT 640 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.