Bus operation, school and employee · Pennsylvania

First Student

Name: First Student Workplace Safety Data
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Ellwood City, PA · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 7.6
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

First Student runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student: 7.6 TCR = 169% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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).

10/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 0% 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: 7.0 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2022

First Student's TCR rose 0.7 from 7.0 in 2018 to 7.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Ellwood City, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 169% of ind

DART 7.7 DART
RANK #186/227
PHOTO 313008-Lewiston | ME…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 313008-Lewiston | ME | SME-300 (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.6

What this shows First Student averages 7.6 TCR (169% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

First Student TCR series: 2018=7 · 2019=8 · 2022=7.7 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #186 safest of 227 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Pennsylvania.

First Student (28 employees, TCR 7.6) 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
2022	7.7	7.7	1	0	0
2019	8.0	0.0	0	1	1
2018	7.0	7.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · PA · Ellwood City

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 17 employers in Ellwood City, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	313008-Lewiston \| ME \| SME-300	LEWISTON, ME	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2662-4085	FORT VALLEY, GA	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	North LA County	LANCASTER, CA	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Morongo	YUCCA VALLEY, CA	7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Masda Mushroom LLC	TOUGHKENAMON	28 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Scenery Hill	SCENERY HILL	28 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Production Fire and Safety LLC., DBA Ampro Strategic Alliance PA	WYSOX	28 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bethlehem Energy Center	BETHLEHEM	28 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ellwood City Forge	Ellwood City	235 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nalco	Ellwood City	163 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Inmetco	Ellwood City	92 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hall Industries, Inc.	Ellwood City	83 FTE
NAT-TCR	HG866	Grand Prairie, TX	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	9123-Mke-Primeflight Aviation Services, Inc.	Milwaukee, WI	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	4054-ABS-0030-0030-00015	Wolf Point, MT	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	1855-ALMOB1	Mobile, AL	7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hillsboro Spectra Facilities and Onsites	Hillsboro, OR	28 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cadott C-Store	Chippewa Falls, WI	28 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Havertys Furniture-Winter Garden	Winter Garden, FL	28 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Airways Cleaning and Fireproofing	Sunrise, FL	28 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: 2022, 2019, 2018. 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.