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

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
3066 South Central-Hinds County Ms Raymond, MS A 1.8
4029 East Region-Johnston Johnston, RI A 1.8
11402 Fallbrook Fallbrook, CA A 1.8
Harlow's School Bus Service - Dickinson Dickinson, ND A 1.8
First Student Elyria, OH A 1.8
163012-Higganum | CT | CTG-700 Higganum, CT A 1.8
First Student 20042 Sewickley, PA A 1.8
Chester Upland Tranc LLC Brookhaven, PA A 1.8
293009-Hadley | MA | 293009 Hadley, MA A 1.8
5196_11838 Louisa, KY A 1.8
2662-4154 Utica, NY A 1.8
American Bus Corporation Canton, SD A 1.8
Transportation Department Carthage, TN A 1.8
96920037-1 Hendrickson Bus Corporation-Hendrickson Bus Corporation Huntington, NY A 1.8
10388 Gresham Gresham, OR A 1.8
George Krapf Jr & Sons, Inc. - West Chester Sb West Chester, PA A 1.8
Breck School Golden Valley, MN A 1.8
Prigge's Chartered Buses Sheboygan, WI A 1.8
2662-6028 Mason, OH A 1.8
All-Star-Woodbury Woodbury, CT A 1.8
4081 Central Region-Redford Union Mi Redford, MI A 1.7
DATTCO - East Hampton East Hampton, CT A 1.7
Punxsutawney Punxsutawney, PA A 1.7
20629 - Hamden Hamden, CT A 1.7
4135 East Region-Lehigh Fl Lehigh Acres, FL A 1.7
120-Chicago Central Chicago, IL A 1.7
STA-Fort Bend (TEX-770) Missouri City, TX A 1.7
Moshannon Valley School Bus Garage Houtzdale, PA A 1.7
12635 Saginaw Saginaw, MI A 1.7
20616 Plaistow Plaistow, NH A 1.7
Dattco - Er9 Bethel, CT A 1.7
Lockport Township High School District 205 Transportation Center Lockport, IL A 1.7
First Student - Shoreham Shoreham, NY A 1.7
12718 Easton-Redding Bethel, CT A 1.7
Mahoning Youngstown, OH A 1.7
393_1443 Mckeesport, PA A 1.7
Ecco Ride Wright City Wright City, MO A 1.7
163506-Brookfield | CT | 163506 Brookfield, CT A 1.7
12624 Hempfield Greensburg, PA A 1.7
11782 BerlinVT Berlin, VT A 1.7
3035 Central Region-Central Missouri California, MO A 1.7
George Krapf Jr & Sons, Inc. - Palisades Kintnersville,, PA A 1.7
2662-4126 Dearborn Heights, MI A 1.7
Student Transportation of America Higganum, CT A 1.7
20948 - Three Rivers Pittsburgh, PA A 1.6
11547 West Point West Point, MS A 1.6
Cheltenham Transportation, LLC Oreland, PA A 1.6
4026 East Region-Northampton Ma Easthampton Easthampton, MA A 1.6
2662-6025 Oxford, OH A 1.6
11906 Weymouth Abington, MA A 1.6
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This sector averages 5.0 against a BLS benchmark of 4.5 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

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.