School bus services · Arizona

First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix

Name: First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Phoenix, AZ · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.9
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix: 5.9 TCR = 131% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix safety composite

First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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. Location #20988 Phoenix: 0.0 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2018

First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix's TCR rose 10.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Phoenix, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 131% of ind

DART 5.3 DART
RANK #6/8
PHOTO 163516-Seymour | CT …
BOOK 3y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 163516-Seymour | CT | 163516 (0.0 TCR gap)

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2662-4151

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What this shows First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix averages 5.9 TCR (131% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7 · 2018=10.7 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 School bus services employers in Arizona.

First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix (60 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix has fewer 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
2018	10.7	5.3	3	1
2017	7.0	7.0	3	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · AZ · Phoenix

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 2,630 employers in Phoenix, AZ · 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	163516-Seymour \| CT \| 163516	SEYMOUR, CT	5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	3015 WEST REGION-WOLFFORTH	WOLFFORTH, TX	5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2662-4151	CORAM, NY	5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	First Student Hooksett, NH	CANDIA, NH	5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Yuma Service Center	YUMA	60 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ISTB-7	TEMPE	60 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Exceptional Community Hospital - Maricopa	MARICOPA	60 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hernandez Companies, Inc.	PHOENIX	60 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Maricopa County	Phoenix	15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Phoenix Children's Hospital	Phoenix	7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR	All Company	Phoenix	6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6403-64030500	Phoenix	6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR	Mayfield - Braselton	Braselton, GA	5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	ARK Las Vegas Restaurant Corp.	Las Vegas, NV	5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chicago Marriott Oak Brook	Oak Brook, IL	5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	12- Plainfield Terminal	South Plainfield, NJ	5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	The Arthur Louis Steel Company	Geneva, OH	60 FTE
NAT-SIZE	King of Prussia Recyclery	King of Prussia, PA	60 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Avery Dennison - Graphic Solutions Division - Lowell Facility	Lowell, IN	60 FTE
NAT-SIZE	RealD Boulder	Boulder, CO	60 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.