Bus operation, school and employee · Pennsylvania

STA - Altoona

Altoona, PA · ~126 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

STA - Altoona runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

STA - Altoona: 4.6 TCR = 103% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

STA - Altoona safety composite

STA - Altoona scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Rising injury rate

STA - Altoona: 3.0 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

STA - Altoona's TCR rose 3.3 from 3.0 in 2020 to 6.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Altoona, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.6 · 103% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #121/227
  • PHOTO Fisher Bus Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fisher Bus Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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STA - Altoona in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows STA - Altoona averages 4.6 TCR (103% 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

STA - Altoona TCR series: 2020=3 · 2021=6.3 · BLS 4.5

Where STA - Altoona falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #121 safest of 227 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Pennsylvania.

STA - Altoona (126 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 STA - Altoona
STA - Altoona (126 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

STA - Altoona 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
2021 6.3 0.0 3 0 0
2020 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · PA · Altoona

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 120 employers in Altoona, PA · 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 Fisher Bus Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-2047 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niagara Falls Coach Lines 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR STA - Wilson 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Modern Mushroom Farms, Inc. 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Reading 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forcine Concrete & Construction Co. Inc. 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE BQ Philadelphia 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pyramid Healthcare Inc 3,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Altoona 2,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Nursing Agency and Visiting Nurse Association 785 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Altoona Regional Health Services Inc 606 FTE
NAT-TCR Liberty Village 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TCG-OR 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Automotive Supply Associates Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Waxman Consumer Products Group 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sewell Audi of North Houston 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Park Forest 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magna Mirrors- Grand Haven 126 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: 2021, 2020. 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.