School bus services · Wisconsin

Southwest Bus Services, Inc

Prairie Du Chien, WI · ~46 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwest Bus Services, Inc runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

Southwest Bus Services, Inc: 0.7 TCR = 15% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Bus Services, Inc safety composite

Southwest Bus Services, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Southwest Bus Services, Inc: 0.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 5× in 2020

Southwest Bus Services, Inc's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Prairie Du Chien, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 15% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #1/48
  • PHOTO B.R. Williams Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: B.R. Williams Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwest Bus Services, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwest Bus Services, Inc averages 0.7 TCR (15% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

Southwest Bus Services, Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Southwest Bus Services, Inc falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 48 School bus services employers in Wisconsin.

Southwest Bus Services, Inc (46 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Southwest Bus Services, Inc
Southwest Bus Services, Inc (46 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Southwest Bus Services, Inc has fewer employees than the School bus services median and a lower 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 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · WI · Prairie Du Chien

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 23 employers in Prairie Du Chien, 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 B.R. Williams Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 96920005-1 LEESEL TRANSPORTATION CORP.-LEESEL - BRONX 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20923 Little Rock 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 12382 Syracuse West 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmland Management Services - Wisconsin 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baraboo Operations 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schuh General Construction 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holtz Builders, Inc. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Du Chien 563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cabela's Distribution Center 913 - PDC 382 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 882 301 FTE
CITY-NEAR 882 276 FTE
NAT-TCR RRC - Corporate 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cable News Network Inc. - One CNN Center 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Corrpro Santa Fe Springs 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus 409 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fox Hollow Assisted Living 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fiegen Construction Co. 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snodgrass & Sons Construction Co, Inc. 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inpatient 46 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, 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.