School bus services · Illinois

STA-Evanston (MDW-250)

Name: STA-Evanston (MDW-250) Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Evanston, IL · ~53 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.6
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

STA-Evanston (MDW-250) runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade B.

STA-Evanston (MDW-250): 2.6 TCR = 58% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

STA-Evanston (MDW-250) safety composite

STA-Evanston (MDW-250) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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-Evanston (MDW-250): 2.7 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.82× in 2021

STA-Evanston (MDW-250)'s TCR rose 2.1 from 2.7 in 2017 to 4.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Evanston, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 58% of ind

DART 4.8 DART
RANK #22/110
PHOTO 403007-Goffstown | N…
BOOK 5y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 403007-Goffstown | NH | GOF-000 (0.0 TCR gap)

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403009-Bedford

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What this shows STA-Evanston (MDW-250) averages 2.6 TCR (58% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

STA-Evanston (MDW-250) TCR series: 2017=2.7 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.8 · BLS 4.5

Where STA-Evanston (MDW-250) falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 110 School bus services employers in Illinois.

STA-Evanston (MDW-250) (53 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

STA-Evanston (MDW-250) 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
2021	4.8	4.8	1
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	2.2	0.0	1
2018	3.4	3.4	1
2017	2.7	2.7	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · IL · Evanston

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in Evanston, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	403007-Goffstown \| NH \| GOF-000	GOFFSTOWN, NH	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	First Student Lewisville	LEWISVILLE, TX	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Palmer Bus Service of Windom Inc.	WINDOM, MN	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	403009-Bedford \| NH \| GOF-030	BEDFORD, NH	2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Flamm Orchards Inc	COBDEN	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DuPont Pioneer Princeton IL Research-PRI2	PRINCETON	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2505-Mason City, IL	MASON CITY	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Prairie State Generating Company - Corporate Office	MARISSA	53 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northwestern University	Evanston	13,993 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EVANSTON HOSPITAL	Evanston	3,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CITY OF EVANSTON	Evanston	1,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Citywide	Evanston	1,020 FTE
NAT-TCR	N1-Deptford Showroom	Deptford, NJ	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Limbach - Ohio	Columbus, OH	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	QEP / Kraus GA	Dalton, GA	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Saginaw - KUKA Assembly and Test Corp.	Saginaw, MI	2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Southfield West	Southfield, MI	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	East Canton, OH (APC)	East Canton, OH	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Koch Foods Drivers	Morristown, TN	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Nationwide Industries	Tampa, FL	53 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.