School and Employee Bus Transportation · Pennsylvania
Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd
Butler, PA · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 6.8
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School and Employee Bus Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 6.8
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 4.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 2
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd's OSHA Total Case Rate of 6.8 to the School and Employee Bus Transportation BLS benchmark of 4.5 (152% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 4.5 industry benchmark.
Where Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd falls in its industry
1,825 School and Employee Bus Transp establishmentsSafer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.
Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #223 safest of 273 School and Employee Bus Transp employers in Pennsylvania.
Trend analysis for Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd
Between 2022 and 2024, Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 0.0 to 9.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 0% change across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 11.1, a spread of 11.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd recorded 2 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 2 injuries shown on this page for Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 485410 - School and Employee Bus Transportation.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 21,250 hours worked = 9.41 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd (this establishment) | 6.84 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| School bus services industry avg | 4.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 485410 |
| Pennsylvania state avg (all industries) | 5.06 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9.4 | 9.4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 11.1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd's reported OSHA injury record versus its School and Employee Bus Transportation peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 152% of the School and Employee Bus Transportation benchmark, Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider School and Employee Bus Transportation sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.