School bus services · New York

First Student

Fredonia, NY · ~95 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student: 5.3 TCR = 117% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

First Student held a steady TCR band

First Student's TCR held near 0.0 from 7.0 in 2017 to 7.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.0 · 2018=7.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=8.2 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Fredonia, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 117% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #132/158
  • PHOTO STA - Hermitage
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STA - Hermitage (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 5.3 TCR (117% 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: 2017=7 · 2018=7 · 2019=0 · 2020=8.2 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=7.1 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #132 safest of 158 School bus services employers in New York.

First Student (95 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 (95 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 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
2023 7.1 2.4 3 0 0
2022 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2021 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 8.2 4.1 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.0 0.0 3 0 0
2017 7.0 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · NY · Fredonia

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 12 employers in Fredonia, NY · 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 STA - Hermitage 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joseph Ingle Bus Service, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cyr Bus Bangor 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 533013-Waco | TX | TEX-765 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Junction Boulevard 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9502 Avenue D 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE STCFField 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nonnis Foods LLC 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1949 368 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1949 358 FTE
CITY-NEAR Faculty Student Association of State University of New York College at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR FREDONIA OPERATING HQTRS-NY40 56 FTE
NAT-TCR Fullmer Cattle Company 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HMP Jay Group 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Malibu Boats, LLC CA Operations 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 383 SW Arrowhead Terrace Lake City Fl 32024 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fire HQ/Station 91 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Basic American Medical Products 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE GP Vaccination (Loretto) 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crisp & Crisp, Inc. 95 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.