School bus services · Missouri

First Student

Kansas City, MO · ~224 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

First Student: 2.0 TCR = 45% 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 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2024

First Student's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Kansas City, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 45% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #6/48
  • PHOTO 20440-Houston
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~224 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 20440-Houston (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 2.0 TCR (45% 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=0 · 2024=4 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 48 School bus services employers in Missouri.

First Student (224 employees, TCR 2.0) 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
First Student (224 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 4.0 2.4 5 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MO · Kansas City

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, MO · 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 20440-Houston 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-6019 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 163006-Griswold | CT | CTG-100 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FS12370 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 8296 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE 135 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Climate Express Inc. 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Joseph Hospital - Wentzville 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Merchandising Services (GMS) 9,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
NAT-TCR STR0627 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dealership - Salinas 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Burlington 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kight Home Center 492 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE A. L. Schutzman 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gafay - Fayette 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Micic - Cicotte 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mishe - Shelby 224 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.

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