School bus services · Pennsylvania

First Student

Name: First Student Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Middletown, PA · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

First Student runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student: 5.0 TCR = 112% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−10.1

2018→2019

First Student injury rate improved

First Student's TCR fell 10.1 from 10.1 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.1 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Middletown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 112% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #134/227
PHOTO First Student - Seat…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Student - Seattle (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student

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Auburn Transit

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What this shows First Student averages 5.0 TCR (112% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

First Student TCR series: 2018=10.1 · 2019=0 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #134 safest of 227 School bus services employers in Pennsylvania.

First Student (38 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 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
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2018	10.1	10.1	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · PA · Middletown

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 99 employers in Middletown, PA · 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	First Student - Seattle	SEATTLE, WA	5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Auburn Transit	AUBURN, CA	5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Palm Springs 20406	PALM SPRINGS, CA	5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	STA-Columbia (MIZ-000)	COLUMBIA, MO	5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Kaolin Mushroom Farms - M&J Facility	KENNETT SQUARE	38 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dairy	MANHEIM	38 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc - Elizabethtown	ELIZABETHTOWN	38 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Risser's Poultry Handling Services, LLC	LITITZ	38 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PATWN - EAST ZONE REGIONAL HUB	Middletown	1,864 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Phoenix Contact	Middletown	982 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6458-ZEHR	Middletown	629 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NHS	Middletown	532 FTE
NAT-TCR	GraphTec	Jessup, MD	5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Jr Faulkner Excavation II, Inc.	Bend, OR	5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	GGP	Crawford, GA	5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-NY/NJ District : SVC-Long Island City NY-USA	Long Island City, NY	5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	New England Lead Burning Company, Inc. - Houston	Houton, TX	38 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Garrett County Fair	Mchenry, MD	38 FTE
NAT-SIZE	2039-Ogden Raptors	Ogden, UT	38 FTE
NAT-SIZE	2039-Oklahoma City	Oklahoma City, OK	38 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: 2019, 2018. 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.