School bus services · Illinois

First Student #11455

Rock Falls, IL · ~75 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student #11455 runs at 344% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade F.

First Student #11455: 15.5 TCR = 344% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student #11455 safety composite

First Student #11455 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−1.7

2016→2019

First Student #11455 injury rate improved

First Student #11455's TCR fell 1.7 from 13.8 in 2016 to 12.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 20.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.8 · 2018=20.6 · 2019=12.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Rock Falls, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.5 · 344% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #105/110
  • PHOTO Transportation Build…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transportation Building (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student #11455 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student #11455 averages 15.5 TCR (344% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

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

First Student #11455 TCR series: 2016=13.8 · 2018=20.6 · 2019=12.1 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student #11455 falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #105 safest of 110 School bus services employers in Illinois.

First Student #11455 (75 employees, TCR 15.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate First Student #11455
First Student #11455 (75 employees, TCR 15.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student #11455 has more employees than the School bus services median and a higher 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2019 12.1 7.3 5 0 0
2018 20.6 5.2 8 0 0
2016 13.8 13.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · IL · Rock Falls

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 22 employers in Rock Falls, IL · 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 Transportation Building 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 11938 Iroquois 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20956 Charleston Area-A 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 393_1442 15.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kankakee Nursery Co. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenhouse 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois American Water (Chicago Metro) 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haier Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR IFH Group Inc 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR The IFH Group, Inc. 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 830 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR 830 102 FTE
NAT-TCR SAN - Provisioning 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Orlando (W98) 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tree Trust Headquarters St Paul 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HG763 15.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverside Suites - Resort 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newark Service Center 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-Abs 0016 0089 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-Abs 0016 0963 75 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.