Local bus services (except mixed mode) · Colorado

First Group America

Denver, CO · ~275 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Group America runs at 8% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Local bus services (except mixed mode) workplace, earning a grade A.

First Group America: 0.3 TCR = 8% of Local bus services (except mixed mode) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Group America safety composite

First Group America scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2016→2018

First Group America injury rate improved

First Group America's TCR fell 0.7 from 0.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.7 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · Denver, CO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 8% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO 6091-SS003
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~275 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6091-SS003 (0.1 TCR gap)

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First Group America in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Group America averages 0.3 TCR (8% of the Local bus services (except mixed mode) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

First Group America TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2018=0 · BLS 4.5

Where First Group America falls in its industry

332 Local bus services (except mix establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Local bus services (except mix employers in Colorado.

First Group America (275 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate First Group America
First Group America (275 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

First Group America has more employees than the Local bus services (except mixed mode) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.7 0.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · CO · Denver

332 Local bus services (except mixed mode) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 1,757 employers in Denver, CO · 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 6091-SS003 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Area Transportation Authority 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6091-977 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CRUISIN' COMMUNITY TRANSIT CONNECTION, INC. 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2197 - Westminster NE 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4734 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0676 - ARVADA CO WHSE 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dish Tech - 90 Inverness 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN DEN 9,832 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-DEN 6,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN - Airport United Airlines Offices 5,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR CO-01 4,581 FTE
NAT-TCR Nestle Nutrition USA, Gateway 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Aetna Specialty Pharmacy LLC 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mersen Salem 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunoco Ellis Administrative 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Plant 1 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Virbac Animal Health Bridgeton, Missouri 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pittsburgh 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kalamazoo Manufacturing 275 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: 2018, 2016. 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.