Bus operation, school and employee · California

First Student 12749

Santa Maria, CA · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student 12749 runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student 12749: 4.8 TCR = 106% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student 12749 safety composite

First Student 12749 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

Rising injury rate

First Student 12749: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2024

First Student 12749's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #45/119
  • PHOTO 12380 Walck Rd
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 12380 Walck Rd (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student 12749 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student 12749 averages 4.8 TCR (106% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

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

First Student 12749 TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=8.4 · 2024=6 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student 12749 falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 119 Bus operation, school and empl employers in California.

First Student 12749 (69 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 12749
First Student 12749 (69 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student 12749 has fewer employees than the Bus operation, school and employee 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
2024 6.0 2.0 3 0 0
2023 8.4 8.4 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CA · Santa Maria

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, CA · 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 12380 Walck Rd 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20059 - Ridge 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tumbleweed Educational Enterprises, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portage Township Schools 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Woolf Enterprises 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terranova Ranch, Inc 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rayo Shop 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Harvesting | Citrus Harvesting 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR Blackhawk Transport Save a Lot Edwardsville Il 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Diamond Industries Clinton 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Utilimaster- Landisville, PA 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Crest Foods Store 8 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 493007-Middletown | RI | OST-120 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoffman Building Technologies, Inc - Greensboro 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercedes-Benz USA - Jacksonville Parts Distribution Center 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cadence Device 69 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.