School bus services · Michigan

First Student-Berrien Springs

Berrien Springs, MI · ~78 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student-Berrien Springs runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student-Berrien Springs: 4.4 TCR = 98% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student-Berrien Springs safety composite

First Student-Berrien Springs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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-Berrien Springs: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

First Student-Berrien Springs's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Berrien Springs, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 98% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #39/74
  • PHOTO 2662-4093
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2662-4093 (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student-Berrien Springs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student-Berrien Springs averages 4.4 TCR (98% 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-Berrien Springs TCR series: 2020=0 · 2022=8.9 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=3 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student-Berrien Springs falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 74 School bus services employers in Michigan.

First Student-Berrien Springs (78 employees, TCR 4.4) 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-Berrien Springs
First Student-Berrien Springs (78 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student-Berrien Springs 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 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2023 5.9 3.0 2 0 0
2022 8.9 8.9 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Berrien Springs

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 5 employers in Berrien Springs, MI · 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 2662-4093 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 533015-Navasota | TX | TEX-775 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 563008-Washington | VT | ACY-200 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henry Mast Greenhouses Inc. 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Joseph Office and Service Center 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signal Restoration USA 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Enclosure Company, LLC 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR ANDREWS UNIVERSITY 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hardings Markets 949 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Faulkner Fabricators Inc 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Universal Medical Specialties 27 FTE
NAT-TCR Vishay Dale Electronics 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 000700-Memphis Tn (Holmes-Dc) 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Integrity Fire Protection, LLC 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ICU Medical Inc - DDH 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Renaissance Columbus Westerville-Polaris Hotel 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orem City Fire Department 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kern Ag Services Inc 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE George Evans Corporation 78 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, 2022, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.