School bus services · New York

First Student Inc

Watertown, NY · ~73 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student Inc runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student Inc: 5.0 TCR = 110% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Inc safety composite

First Student Inc 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.54 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

−0.8

2022→2024

First Student Inc injury rate improved

First Student Inc's TCR fell 0.8 from 5.3 in 2022 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.3 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Watertown, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 110% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #126/158
  • PHOTO 413008-Butler | NJ |…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 413008-Butler | NJ | NJL-100 (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student Inc averages 5.0 TCR (110% 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 Inc TCR series: 2022=5.3 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Inc falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #126 safest of 158 School bus services employers in New York.

First Student Inc (73 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Inc
First Student Inc (73 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student Inc 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 Fatalities
2024 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2022 5.3 5.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · NY · Watertown

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 115 employers in Watertown, NY · 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 413008-Butler | NJ | NJL-100 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 11917 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20529 Northampton 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIRST STUDENT 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southview Dairy 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Irish Welding & Irish Propane 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE LSP NY 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE BATAVIA SERVICE CENTER-NY35 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Medical Center 1,735 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc Jefferson-St Lawrence NY 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAR-FRESHNER Corporation 430 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1871 381 FTE
NAT-TCR Essex Rehab & Care Center, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hogan & Associates Construction Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ampco Pumps Company 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar Springs MI Truss 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arbor Management Services LLC 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE CB Janesville 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Place 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1795 73 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.