School bus services · Connecticut

First Student

Fairfield, CT · ~151 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

First Student: 1.0 TCR = 21% 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 96% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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: 1.0 → 172.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 172.0 TCR · DART/TCR 119.46× in 2021

First Student's TCR rose 171.1 from 1.0 in 2016 to 172.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 119.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Fairfield, CT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 21% of ind

  • DART 114.7 DART
  • RANK #4/113
  • PHOTO Lincoln Park
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lincoln 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 1.0 TCR (21% 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: 2016=1 · 2021=172 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 113 School bus services employers in Connecticut.

First Student (151 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 (151 employees, TCR 1.0) 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
2021 172.0 114.7 6 0 0
2016 1.0 0.5 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CT · Fairfield

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 63 employers in Fairfield, CT · 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 Lincoln Park 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 11309 Englewood 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robinson CUSD #2 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student Inc. 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Environmental Systems Company, LLC 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ward Leonard CT LLC 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE STOP & SHOP 0673 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE STOP & SHOP 100694 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfield Board of Education 1,670 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10317 Fairfield 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orthopaedic Specialty Group, P.C. 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ludlowe Center for health & rehab 206 FTE
NAT-TCR Alterman, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Edina ISD #273 - Cornelia Elementary 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rancho Markets#8 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Devon Energy Corporation - Eagle Ford 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE FCL Logistics ltd. 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtenay Springs Village 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Center for Organ Recovery and Education 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denton Distribution Center 151 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: 2021, 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.