Passenger air transportation, scheduled · Delaware

First Student

Newark, DE · ~161 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Passenger air transportation, scheduled workplace, earning a grade B.

First Student: 3.4 TCR = 75% of Passenger air transportation, scheduled BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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: 0.1 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.97× in 2017

First Student's TCR rose 6.6 from 0.1 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Newark, DE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.4 · 75% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK P71
  • PHOTO FLL-TECHNICAL OPERAT…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FLL-TECHNICAL OPERATIONS (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 3.4 TCR (75% of the Passenger air transportation, scheduled BLS benchmark).

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

First Student TCR series: 2016=0.1 · 2017=6.7 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,568 Passenger air transportation, establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
First Student (161 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate First Student
First Student (161 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

First Student has more employees than the Passenger air transportation, scheduled median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2017 6.7 6.7 7 0 0
2016 0.1 0.1 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · DE · Newark

1,568 Passenger air transportation, scheduled employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 221 employers in Newark, DE · 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 FLL-TECHNICAL OPERATIONS 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TUL - Airport United Airlines Offices 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 75140001--CINCI UNITED AIR SKYCAP 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6925-IAD 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chesapeake Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2875 - Wilmington Prices Corner 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE 197200000 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Banyan Delaware 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR 50 Christiana 11,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newark Site 1,462 FTE
CITY-NEAR DE00000042 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - NEWARK 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR DuPont Electronic Materials 653 FTE
NAT-TCR Wahlert Catholic High School 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3431 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ursa Logistics - Freight 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Maintenance of Florida, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pototoc Spring 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0024 0053 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bremerton (Wabre) 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norfolk (Vanor) 161 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: 2017, 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.