Bus operation, school and employee · Colorado

First Student

Montrose, CO · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student: 4.9 TCR = 109% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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: 0.0 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2018

First Student's TCR rose 9.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Montrose, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 109% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO DOT Randolph Transp …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DOT Randolph Transp Depot (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student averages 4.9 TCR (109% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

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

First Student TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=9.8 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Colorado.

First Student (50 employees, TCR 4.9) 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
First Student (50 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student has fewer employees than the Bus operation, school and employee 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
2018 9.8 4.9 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CO · Montrose

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 71 employers in Montrose, CO · 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 DOT Randolph Transp Depot 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student Tiverton 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transportation 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-7001 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Logistics-Southern Truck Fleet 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Photon Brothers, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greeley Operations Center 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Morrison Denver Division 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montrose Memorial Hospital 777 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 238 S 2nd Street 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 3325 North Townsend 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 540 S 1st Street 335 FTE
NAT-TCR LC028 - Dunn NC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0164 - York, Pa 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR N and R of Kimberling City LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Pallets Lancaster 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courtyard by Marriott San Francisco Union Square 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryerson- Milwaukee 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryerson- Seattle 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kirlin Mechanical Services 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: 2018, 2016. 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.