School bus services · Montana

First Student Bozeman

Bozeman, MT · ~50 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student Bozeman runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student Bozeman: 6.2 TCR = 139% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Bozeman safety composite

First Student Bozeman scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−2.5

2020→2023

First Student Bozeman injury rate improved

First Student Bozeman's TCR fell 2.5 from 7.1 in 2020 to 4.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.1 · 2021=7.0 · 2023=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Bozeman, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 139% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO First Student
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Student (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student Bozeman in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student Bozeman averages 6.2 TCR (139% 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 Bozeman TCR series: 2020=7.1 · 2021=7 · 2023=4.6 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Bozeman falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 School bus services employers in Montana.

First Student Bozeman (50 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Bozeman
First Student Bozeman (50 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student Bozeman has fewer 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
2023 4.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2020 7.1 7.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MT · Bozeman

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 136 employers in Bozeman, 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 First Student 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4047 SOUTH CENTRAL-BALTIMORE 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Muskego 20083 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norris School District 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sussex Construction Inc 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE JTL Group Inc DBA Knife River Kalispell 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 26-MT 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE DPS Electronics 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital 1,739 FTE
CITY-NEAR BZNPW9672 BZN - FRONTIER PAX R 1,543 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2084 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2084 325 FTE
NAT-TCR Arcata South (Corp. Hq) 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Westport Pools, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Linzer Products Corp 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Alliance Door Products - Wilsonville 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Public Works 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harvin Choice Meats Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE G. & H. Contracting, Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pace Industries Zinc 50 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, 2021, 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.