Bus operation, school and employee · Washington

First Student, Inc. - 12125-A

Name: First Student, Inc. - 12125-A Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Seattle, WA · ~288 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.9
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

First Student, Inc. - 12125-A runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student, Inc. - 12125-A: 3.9 TCR = 86% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student, Inc. - 12125-A safety composite

First Student, Inc. - 12125-A scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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, Inc. - 12125-A: 2.0 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2021

First Student, Inc. - 12125-A's TCR rose 3.7 from 2.0 in 2020 to 5.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Seattle, WA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 86% of ind

DART 3.6 DART
RANK #5/21
PHOTO 96920026-4 WE TRANSP…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 10 inj
SIZE ~288 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 96920026-4 WE TRANSPORT LLC-WE TRANS - BRIDGEPORT (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows First Student, Inc. - 12125-A averages 3.9 TCR (86% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

First Student, Inc. - 12125-A TCR series: 2020=2 · 2021=5.7 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student, Inc. - 12125-A falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 21 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Washington.

First Student, Inc. - 12125-A (288 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student, Inc. - 12125-A has more employees than the Bus operation, school and employee 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
2021	5.7	3.6	7	1	0
2020	2.0	2.0	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · WA · Seattle

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, WA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	96920026-4 WE TRANSPORT LLC-WE TRANS - BRIDGEPORT	BRIDGEPORT, CT	3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2662-2030	WACO, TX	3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	First Student	VILLE PLATTE, LA	3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	First Student - 12811 Madison	MADISON, WI	3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	SAS Mattawa West	MATTAWA	288 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TK Elevator Kirkland	KIRKLAND	288 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Maintenance Operations & Administration (MOA)	RICHLAND	288 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Global Specialty Fulfillment : UWA4	SEATTLE	288 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UW Seattle	Seattle	32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The United States of America	Seattle	25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Starz Entertainment	Seattle	25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW	Seattle	11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR	Greenwood	Greenwood, MS	3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	UNC Lenoir Health Care	Kinston, NC	3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Towson Au Bon Pain	Towson, MD	3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	AmeriGas - ACE - Atlanta, GA	Doraville, GA	3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	K057-M001	Rochester, MN	288 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DFW	Dfw Airport, TX	288 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Maria Joseph	Dayton, OH	288 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Buckhannon	Buckhannon, WV	288 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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