School bus services · Iowa

First Student

Ankeny, IA · ~135 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

First Student runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student: 4.5 TCR = 100% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y 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 dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−995.5

2022→2024

First Student injury rate improved

First Student's TCR fell 995.5 from 1000.0 in 2022 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1000.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1000.0 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Ankeny, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 100% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #9/22
  • PHOTO First Student-dalton
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Student-dalton (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 4.5 TCR (100% 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: 2022=1000 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 22 School bus services employers in Iowa.

First Student (135 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 (135 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2022 1000.0 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · IA · Ankeny

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, IA · 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 First Student-dalton 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2048 WEST REGION-BOISE ID 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student Fresno 20303 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 25016 - Dalton 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Luana 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hahn Ready Mix Plant #32 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE GMT Corporation 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE O'Neal Manufacturing Services dba Iowa Laser Technology 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR AHG YBOR Licensee LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Integrity McAlpine Adult Care, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cambria Hotel Downtown Houston 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Station 60 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Precision Concepts - Mebane 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edgerton Location 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bwi-Technical Operations 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Red Cross - 707 N Main St 135 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, 2022. 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.