School bus services · Illinois

First Student

Granite City, IL · ~132 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student: 5.5 TCR = 122% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.21 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%).

Rising injury rate

First Student: 4.9 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.22× in 2024

First Student's TCR rose 1.1 from 4.9 in 2023 to 6.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Granite City, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 122% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #77/110
  • PHOTO Penn Hills / Pittsbu…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Penn Hills / Pittsburgh Terminal (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 5.5 TCR (122% 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=4.9 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #77 safest of 110 School bus services employers in Illinois.

First Student (132 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 (132 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 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
2024 6.1 1.2 5 0 0
2023 4.9 2.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · IL · Granite City

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 80 employers in Granite City, 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 Penn Hills / Pittsburgh Terminal 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3079 CENTRAL REGION-WAUKEE IA 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sacramento City Unified School District 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kincaid Generation LLC 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE McNelly Services, Inc. 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Imperial Construction Associates, Inc. 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE CUBS CONSTRUCTION INC 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granite City Works 976 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amsted Rail Company Inc 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granite City Plant 563 FTE
CITY-NEAR icon Mechanical LLC 448 FTE
NAT-TCR Laear - Earhart Package Centers 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Immokalee Packing 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 074 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Rapids Controls 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE STR0553 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Dairy 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE BC Wood Products 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nyuti - Utica 132 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.