School bus services · Ohio

First Student

Name: First Student Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Elyria, OH · ~78 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.8
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

First Student runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

First Student: 1.8 TCR = 40% 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 86% 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).

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−3.6

2018→2022

First Student injury rate improved

First Student's TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.6 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Elyria, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 40% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #9/60
PHOTO 4029 EAST REGION-JOH…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4029 EAST REGION-JOHNSTON (0.0 TCR gap)

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4029 EAST REGI

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Harlow's Schoo

1.8
First Student

1.8

What this shows First Student averages 1.8 TCR (40% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

First Student TCR series: 2018=3.6 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 60 School bus services employers in Ohio.

First Student (78 employees, TCR 1.8) 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
2022	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2018	3.6	1.8	1	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · OH · Elyria

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 118 employers in Elyria, OH · 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	4029 EAST REGION-JOHNSTON	JOHNSTON, RI	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	11402 Fallbrook	FALLBROOK, CA	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Harlow's School Bus Service - Dickinson	DICKINSON, ND	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	First Student Northbrook	NORTHBROOK, IL	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Reptiles by Mack, LLC	XENIA	78 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Worley Industrial Services at Kraton Polymers	BELPRE	78 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Metcon Ltd	BRADFORD	78 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wm. Kramer & Son, Inc	CLEVES	78 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Elyria Medical Center	Elyria	1,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, LLC - Elyria	Elyria	680 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ridge Tool	Elyria	655 FTE
CITY-NEAR	4255	Elyria	404 FTE
NAT-TCR	JTL Group Inc. DBA Knife River-Belgrade	Belgrade, MT	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	TOPS Surgical Specialty Hospital	Houston, TX	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	963 - North Amherst	Amherst, NY	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	951 - Hunters Creek	Kissimmee, FL	1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Mid-Illinois Companie, Corp.	Peoria, IL	78 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lubrizol Gastonia Plant	Gastonia, NC	78 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Heights at Burbank	Burbank, CA	78 FTE
NAT-SIZE	4795-PD-TYS-KNOXVILLE-TYS-PDMT	Alcoa, TN	78 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, 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.