Employee bus services · Connecticut

First Student Hamden

Hamden, CT · ~112 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student Hamden runs at 320% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Employee bus services workplace, earning a grade F.

First Student Hamden: 14.4 TCR = 320% of Employee bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Hamden safety composite

First Student Hamden scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 Hamden: 8.2 → 20.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 20.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2019

First Student Hamden's TCR rose 12.4 from 8.2 in 2018 to 20.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Hamden, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 320% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #113/113
  • PHOTO 153007-Pueblo | CO |…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 153007-Pueblo | CO | COL-201 (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student Hamden in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows First Student Hamden averages 14.4 TCR (320% of the Employee bus services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

First Student Hamden TCR series: 2018=8.2 · 2019=20.6 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Hamden falls in its industry

1,574 Employee bus services establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #113 safest of 113 Employee bus services employers in Connecticut.

First Student Hamden (112 employees, TCR 14.4) 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 Hamden
First Student Hamden (112 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student Hamden has more employees than the Employee 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
2019 20.6 8.8 6 1 0
2018 8.2 4.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CT · Hamden

1,574 Employee bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 80 employers in Hamden, 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 153007-Pueblo | CO | COL-201 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olympia School District Transportation Facility 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shasta County Office of Education 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 193012-Jacksonville North | FL | 193012 14.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sarracco Mechanical Waterbury 01 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRAND AVENUE 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper-Putnam,CT 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stewart EFI CT 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR CTtransit 1,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitney Center 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hamden Markets LLC, dba ShopRite of Hamden 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arden House 226 FTE
NAT-TCR Country Pork LLP 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1233 Cumberland Street 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR San Leandro (Caslr) 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Longmont (Colon) 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE WeatherBarr 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun Solar, LLC 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franco Nursing & Rehab., Center 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE KBS, Inc. 112 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: 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.