Industry profile · NAICS 485410
School bus services
Workplace injury rates across 1,820 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.
- 1,820
- Employers
- 5.0
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- BLS benchmark
- 16,410
- Injuries
The industry picture
Employers in School bus services average 5.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.1 times the BLS national benchmark of 4.5.
- 5.0
- avg TCR · reporting employers
- 4.5
- BLS national benchmark
- 1,820
- employers reporting
- 16,410
- recordable injuries
OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.
What School bus services Safety Data Reveals
The School bus services sector (NAICS 485410) encompasses 1,820 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 16,410 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 4.5 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 5.0 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.
The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within School bus services that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.
Employers in this industry, by injury rate
Page 23 of 37| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| STA - Indiana | Indiana, PA | B | 2.9 |
| 12504 Moultonborough | Moultonborough, NH | B | 2.9 |
| Merced City School District | Merced, CA | B | 2.9 |
| STA - Wilkes-Barre | Wilkes Barre, PA | B | 2.9 |
| Groveport Facility | Groveport, OH | B | 2.9 |
| 22021 Juneau | Juneau, AK | B | 2.9 |
| 2662-4061 | Birmingham, MI | B | 2.9 |
| All-Star-Plymouth | Pequabuck, CT | B | 2.9 |
| 2662-4064 | Harrisburg, PA | B | 2.9 |
| Odessa | Odessa, MO | B | 2.9 |
| 533009-Eagle Mountain | TX | TEX-745 | Fort Worth, TX | B | 2.9 |
| FS12376 | Poughkeepsie, NY | B | 2.9 |
| Wickliffe | Wickliffe, OH | B | 2.9 |
| First Student | Watertown, CT | B | 2.9 |
| 3096 Central Region-Urbandale Saydel | Urbandale, IA | B | 2.9 |
| 96920019-2 Towne Bus Corp.-We Trans - Pineaire | Bay Shore, NY | B | 2.9 |
| Hazleton Terminal | Hazleton, PA | B | 2.9 |
| 2662-3015 | Wolfforth, TX | B | 2.9 |
| 2662-3095 | Madison, MS | B | 2.9 |
| 2662-4070 | Roselle, NJ | B | 2.9 |
| RCX North Dakota | Enderlin, ND | B | 2.8 |
| 96920033-2 Huntington Coach, LLC-Third Avenue | Huntington Station, NY | B | 2.8 |
| Harlow's School Bus Service - Boulder | Boulder, MT | B | 2.8 |
| Middletown-Vine St | Middletown, PA | B | 2.8 |
| 10457 Newberg | Newberg, OR | B | 2.8 |
| 20785 Miami Valley | Dayton, OH | B | 2.8 |
| David Eschbach Jr. Inc | Holtwood, PA | B | 2.8 |
| First Student Mill St. | Lewisville, TX | B | 2.8 |
| 443020-LewPort - Wilson | NY | 443020 | Youngstown, NY | B | 2.8 |
| Central Administration | East Hartford, CT | B | 2.8 |
| 11316 - Sullivan West | Youngsville, NY | B | 2.8 |
| 20058 - Colfax | Rochester, NY | B | 2.8 |
| Dean Transportation - Mt. Pleasant | Mt. Pleasant, MI | B | 2.8 |
| 443008-Williamsville Big Bus | NY | SNY-511 | Cheektowaga, NY | B | 2.8 |
| 20253 Ogden | Ogden, UT | B | 2.8 |
| 588-Kankakee | Kankakee, IL | B | 2.8 |
| 11774 Nashua NH | Nashua, NH | B | 2.8 |
| First Student Pocono Mountain 12724 | Long Pond, PA | B | 2.8 |
| 4014 Central Region-Lake Villa | Lake Villa, IL | B | 2.8 |
| 2662-2005 | Irvine, CA | B | 2.7 |
| Edwardsburg Public Schools Transportation | Edwardsburg, MI | B | 2.7 |
| Dare County Schools Transportation | Manteo, NC | B | 2.7 |
| IC Escorts Inc. | Staten Island, NY | B | 2.7 |
| Boonville -- 20261 | Boonville, MO | B | 2.7 |
| 96920017-12 Attendant LLC-We Trans - Bronx | Pelham Manor, NY | B | 2.7 |
| Pembroke 11914 | Pembroke, MA | B | 2.7 |
| 2662-4014 | Lake Villa, IL | B | 2.7 |
| RCX Louisiana | Maringouin, LA | B | 2.7 |
| 4009 Central Region-Carpentersville | Carpentersville, IL | B | 2.7 |
| 2662-3078 | Beloit, WI | B | 2.7 |
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