Bus operation, school and employee · Massachusetts

First Student

Plymouth, MA · ~86 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student: 5.5 TCR = 122% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−18.1

2016→2022

First Student injury rate improved

First Student's TCR fell 18.1 from 20.0 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 20.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=20.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2022=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Plymouth, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 122% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #31/47
  • PHOTO Mason County Transpo…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mason County Transportation (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 5.5 TCR (122% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

First Student TCR series: 2016=20 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2022=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 47 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Massachusetts.

First Student (86 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 (86 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Bus operation, school and employee 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
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 1 1 0
2016 20.0 13.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MA · Plymouth

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 101 employers in Plymouth, MA · 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 Mason County Transportation 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 593-Lewisville Mill St 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR STA-Hamilton (DYL-360) 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 871-NiSource-Springfield MA-Cust Op Ctr 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE RRSC Boston 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milltown Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spence & Company 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beth Israel Deaconess Plymouth 1,939 FTE
CITY-NEAR BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL-PLYMOUTH 1,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tech Etch Plymouth 534 FTE
NAT-TCR Plymouth Foam 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Porterville Electric Co., Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Broulim's Montpelier 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1042 - Adrian 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Adams Nursing Home 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lead-Lok, Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inova Surgery Center 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Health & Social Services 86 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: 2022, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.