School bus services · Illinois

First Student

Plainfield, IL · ~155 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade B.

First Student: 2.4 TCR = 54% 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 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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 0.1 from 2.4 in 2023 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.4 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Plainfield, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 54% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #15/110
  • PHOTO 4133 EAST REGION-GOS…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4133 EAST REGION-GOSHEN (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 2.4 TCR (54% 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=2.4 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #15 safest of 110 School bus services employers in Illinois.

First Student (155 employees, TCR 2.4) 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
First Student (155 employees, TCR 2.4) 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
2024 2.5 2.5 3 0 0
2023 2.4 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · IL · Plainfield

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 84 employers in Plainfield, 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 4133 EAST REGION-GOSHEN 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 96920029-3 TRAVELKUZ-BRATTLEBORO 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 11251 Tustin 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-3096 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Artico Cold Storage Chicago LLC 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Judlau Contracting Inc.- ILL All locations/projects 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Best Chicago Meat 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kerry Melrose Park 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5038 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR KBI/Pentair Commercial Services 378 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ken's Beverage Inc. 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meijer Store 214 272 FTE
NAT-TCR Barro's Pizza, FLW 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AccuForm Main Location 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Shelton Platt Rd (5224) 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1110 N. Eastern Ave. 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE OD Tile 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE BSI 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clovernook Healthcare LLC 155 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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