School bus services · Illinois

First Student

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~103 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade B.

First Student: 2.5 TCR = 56% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−0.5

2023→2024

First Student injury rate improved

First Student's TCR fell 0.5 from 2.8 in 2023 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.8 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Elk Grove Village, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #19/110
  • PHOTO 4007 CENTRAL REGION-…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4007 CENTRAL REGION-BEACH PARK (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 2.5 TCR (56% 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 TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

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 110 School bus services employers in Illinois.

First Student (103 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 (103 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student has more employees than the School bus services median and a lower 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 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · IL · Elk Grove Village

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, 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 4007 CENTRAL REGION-BEACH PARK 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4125 TRANSIT REGION-WYANDOTTE - TRINITY 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DATTCO - Windsor 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 163523-Woodbury | CT | 163523 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maywood Tech Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bellwood Reporting Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, Braidwood Station 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Utility LLC 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR creative werks, LLC 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL008 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Baptist Health System Jacksonville Lyerly Baptist 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bristow Middle School 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0199 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Synergy Installation Solutions 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walnut Ridge Service Center 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE World Equestrian Center 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loris Rehab and Nursing Center 103 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. 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.