School bus services · Kansas

First Student 27022

Gardner, KS · ~113 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student 27022 runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

First Student 27022: 2.0 TCR = 44% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student 27022 safety composite

First Student 27022 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

First Student 27022 held a steady TCR band

First Student 27022's TCR held near 0.0 from 2.0 in 2017 to 2.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.0 · 2018=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Gardner, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 44% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #2/22
  • PHOTO Transportation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transportation (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student 27022 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student 27022 averages 2.0 TCR (44% 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 27022 TCR series: 2017=2 · 2018=2 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student 27022 falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 22 School bus services employers in Kansas.

First Student 27022 (113 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 27022
First Student 27022 (113 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student 27022 has more employees than the School bus services 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
2018 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2017 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · KS · Gardner

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 22 employers in Gardner, KS · 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 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palmer Bus Service of Zumbrota Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DATTCO - Durham 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student-Saginaw 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mahaney Group 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA KS Lenexa 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Topeka Foundry & Iron Works 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Boiler Technologies, Inc. 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MKC4 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5307 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5307 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coleman - GRKS 157 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Marion AL 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Histopathology Services LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Field Sales Central 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 392 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Progressive Green Meadows LLC DBA Green Meadows Health and Wellness Center 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hudson #132 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE AWS-Huntington 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE DoubleTree Salt lake City Airport 113 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: 2018, 2017. 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.