Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

First Student

Adrian, MI · ~33 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student: 6.3 TCR = 139% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−13.8

2018→2024

First Student injury rate improved

First Student's TCR fell 13.8 from 17.8 in 2018 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=17.8 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Adrian, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 139% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #53/74
  • PHOTO 4047 SOUTH CENTRAL-B…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4047 SOUTH CENTRAL-BALTIMORE (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 6.3 TCR (139% 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: 2018=17.8 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=0 · 2024=4 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

First Student (33 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 (33 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student has fewer 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
2024 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2020 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2018 17.8 13.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Adrian

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 78 employers in Adrian, MI · 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 4047 SOUTH CENTRAL-BALTIMORE 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Muskego 20083 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student Inc. 11928 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student Bozeman 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE PRH GROUP LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Three Rivers Svc Ctr 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alpena Power Company 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Treatment City of Wyoming 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charles and Virginia Hickman Hospital 599 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bixby Hospital 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inteva Products 555 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lenawee County 513 FTE
NAT-TCR Roseville Grocery Outlet 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CAS047 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Office 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Thompson + Hanson Houston Landscape Architecture 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walnut Creek Cheese Berlin 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE TXS017 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE TXS016 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE TXH081 33 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.