Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) · Illinois

First Student Belvidere

Belvidere, IL · ~192 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student Belvidere runs at 311% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) workplace, earning a grade F.

First Student Belvidere: 14.0 TCR = 311% of Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Belvidere safety composite

First Student Belvidere scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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 Belvidere: 2.7 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 34.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.14× in 2021

First Student Belvidere's TCR rose 2.1 from 2.7 in 2019 to 4.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 34.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · Belvidere, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.0 · 311% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #19/20
  • PHOTO 7060 TRANSIT REGION-…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 7060 TRANSIT REGION-NASHVILLE SCHOOL BUS (0.1 TCR gap)

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First Student Belvidere in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student Belvidere averages 14.0 TCR (311% of the Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) BLS benchmark).

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

First Student Belvidere TCR series: 2019=2.7 · 2020=34.5 · 2021=4.7 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Belvidere falls in its industry

332 Bus services, urban and suburb establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 20 Bus services, urban and suburb employers in Illinois.

First Student Belvidere (192 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate First Student Belvidere
First Student Belvidere (192 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

First Student Belvidere has more employees than the Bus services, urban and suburban (except median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2021 4.7 1.9 5 0 0
2020 34.5 34.5 3 0 0
2019 2.7 2.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · IL · Belvidere

332 Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 74 employers in Belvidere, IL · 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 7060 TRANSIT REGION-NASHVILLE SCHOOL BUS 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7066 TRANSIT REGION-MILLBURY MA 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-7032 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Santa Rosa - Transit 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cresco Labs - Lincoln 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE M-Bar-D 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE #1 roofing company 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILDIV 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belvidere Assembly Plant 3,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magna Exterirors Belvidere 655 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills (Belvidere) 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills Operations, LLC. 560 FTE
NAT-TCR Shelton Health & Rehab 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Hardwoods Inc 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6975-1L13 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-Aa-Las-Las Vegas-Las-Trml 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE CHOICE Call Center 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grant Street 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE endevis 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ind. School District No. 743 192 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.