School bus services · South Carolina

First Student-20956

Name: First Student-20956 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

North Charleston, SC · ~445 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.8
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

First Student-20956 runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student-20956: 6.8 TCR = 152% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student-20956 safety composite

First Student-20956 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−1.6

2023→2024

First Student-20956 injury rate improved

First Student-20956's TCR fell 1.6 from 7.6 in 2023 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.6 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · North Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 152% of ind

DART 4.2 DART
RANK #2/6
PHOTO All-Star-Burlington
BOOK 2y book
INJ 33 inj
SIZE ~445 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: All-Star-Burlington (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.8
All-Star-Burli

6.8
First Student

6.8
2662-4017

6.8
Valley Lines I

6.8

What this shows First Student-20956 averages 6.8 TCR (152% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

First Student-20956 TCR series: 2023=7.6 · 2024=6 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student-20956 falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 School bus services employers in South Carolina.

First Student-20956 (445 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student-20956 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
2024	6.0	4.2	17	0	0
2023	7.6	6.8	16	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · SC · North Charleston

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 256 employers in North Charleston, SC · 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	All-Star-Burlington	HARWINTON, CT	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	First Student Branford	BRANFORD, CT	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2662-4017	TRUMBULL, CT	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Valley Lines Inc - New Castle Rd	BUTLER, PA	6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	United Infrastructure Group	GREAT FALLS	444 FTE
STATE-SIZE	JTEKT North America	BLYTHEWOOD	447 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cowpens - 600 Webber Road	COWPENS	447 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SIMPSONVILLE MEDICAL CAMPUS	SIMPSONVILLE	447 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Charleston County	North Charleston	2,601 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Palmetto Goodwill Services	North Charleston	1,105 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Trident Medical Center	North Charleston	1,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SRC Charleston ISS Division	North Charleston	815 FTE
NAT-TCR	The New Algae Company	Klamath Falls, OR	6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nyrom - Rome Center	Rome, NY	6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Txken - Kenedy Center	Karnes City, TX	6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Alann - Anniston	Oxford, AL	6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Daddy Ray's	Moscow Mills, MO	445 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Vaspn - Newington	Springfield, VA	445 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Educational Service Center	Maple Grove, MN	445 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Apex Tool Group - Apex Operations	Apex, NC	445 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.