Bus operation, school and employee · Pennsylvania

Southern Columbia School Bus Garage

Catawissa, PA · ~41 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Columbia School Bus Garage runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Columbia School Bus Garage: 6.1 TCR = 135% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Columbia School Bus Garage safety composite

Southern Columbia School Bus Garage scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−13.6

2016→2024

Southern Columbia School Bus Garage injury rate improved

Southern Columbia School Bus Garage's TCR fell 13.6 from 13.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.6 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=14.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=16.5 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Catawissa, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 135% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #159/227
  • PHOTO First Student Wichita
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

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

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Southern Columbia School Bus Garage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Columbia School Bus Garage averages 6.1 TCR (135% 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

Southern Columbia School Bus Garage TCR series: 2016=13.6 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=14 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=16.5 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Southern Columbia School Bus Garage falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #159 safest of 227 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Pennsylvania.

Southern Columbia School Bus Garage (41 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Southern Columbia School Bus Garage
Southern Columbia School Bus Garage (41 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Southern Columbia School Bus Garage 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 Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2022 16.5 16.5 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 14.0 14.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2016 13.6 6.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · PA · Catawissa

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 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 Wichita 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR William Floyd 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BRANDYWINE CW LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2006 WEST REGION-OXNARD 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE SpecialtyEgg 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE PA Operations 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.B. Mill & Fabricating Inc. 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miller Environmental, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR 28 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Mur-Ci Homes, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vulcan Tools 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Capital Stampings Corp 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Foodland 130 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pat's Gradall Service Inc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE RW Patterson Printing Company 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fluted Partition 41 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.