Bus operation, school and employee · Wisconsin

First Student - 12811 Madison

Name: First Student - 12811 Madison Workplace Safety Data
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Madison, WI · ~216 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.9
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

First Student - 12811 Madison runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student - 12811 Madison: 3.9 TCR = 86% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student - 12811 Madison safety composite

First Student - 12811 Madison scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

−2.8

2023→2024

First Student - 12811 Madison injury rate improved

First Student - 12811 Madison's TCR fell 2.8 from 5.3 in 2023 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.3 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Madison, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 86% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK #17/48
PHOTO First Student
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~216 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Student (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows First Student - 12811 Madison averages 3.9 TCR (86% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

First Student - 12811 Madison TCR series: 2023=5.3 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student - 12811 Madison falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 48 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Wisconsin.

First Student - 12811 Madison (216 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student - 12811 Madison has more employees than the Bus operation, school and employee median and a lower 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	2.5	2.5	4	0	0
2023	5.3	5.3	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · WI · Madison

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 577 employers in Madison, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	First Student	VILLE PLATTE, LA	3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Stevensville	STEVENSVILLE, MT	3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2662-2006	OXNARD, CA	3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2662-4106	ODENTON, MD	3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Riverside Project	BELOIT	216 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Impact Confections	JANESVILLE	216 FTE
STATE-SIZE	G&O Fredonia	FREDONIA	216 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Eck Industries	MANITOWOC	216 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Mary's Hospital - Madison	Madison	2,401 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Meriter Hospital	Madison	2,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EatStreet	Madison	1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR	TDS - Junction Road (All Employees)	Madison	1,302 FTE
NAT-TCR	GTS Vancouver	Vancouver, WA	3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Alliance Community Hospital	Alliance, OH	3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	300000170856815 - AZ-Phoenix-Operating Center	Phoenix, AZ	3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	CA-Eastern Trans/Sub - Rialto	Rialto, CA	3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Cardoza Plumbing Corp.	Westbury, NY	216 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Meriden	Meriden, CT	216 FTE
NAT-SIZE	View	Milpitas, CA	216 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ShopRite of Long Hill Plaza	Oakland, NJ	216 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. 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.