Suburban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) · Montana

First Student 22043/Helena

Helena, MT · ~80 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student 22043/Helena runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Suburban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) workplace, earning a grade B.

First Student 22043/Helena: 2.5 TCR = 56% of Suburban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student 22043/Helena safety composite

First Student 22043/Helena scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

First Student 22043/Helena held a steady TCR band

First Student 22043/Helena's TCR held near 0.0 from 2.5 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.5 · 2023=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485111 · Helena, MT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P84
  • PHOTO Kansas City, MO - NE…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kansas City, MO - NE Birmingham (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student 22043/Helena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student 22043/Helena averages 2.5 TCR (56% of the Suburban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) BLS benchmark).

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

First Student 22043/Helena TCR series: 2022=2.5 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student 22043/Helena falls in its industry

421 Suburban transit systems, mixe establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
First Student 22043/Helena (80 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate First Student 22043/Helena
First Student 22043/Helena (80 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

First Student 22043/Helena has fewer employees than the Suburban transit systems, mixed mode (e. median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2023 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485111 · MT · Helena

421 Suburban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 98 employers in Helena, MT · 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 Kansas City, MO - NE Birmingham 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeland Bus Lines Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alexandria Rail Facility/Telegraph Road 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4054-000004023 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4054-000000630 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4054-000000018 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shopko Store #75 (Missoula, MT) 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dick Anderson Construction 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1872 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1872 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rocky Mountain Contractors, Main Office 265 FTE
NAT-TCR University Subaru Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR W.L. French Excavating Corp 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Seattle Safety 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cabinetworks Group 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE TGS Precision, LLC 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silbrico Corporation - Hodgkins 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Perspective - Waconia 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silgan Containers Plover 80 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: 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.