School bus services · New Hampshire

First Student Nashua

Nashua, NH · ~200 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student Nashua runs at 254% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade F.

First Student Nashua: 11.4 TCR = 254% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Nashua safety composite

First Student Nashua scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 Nashua: 11.4 → 192.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 192.3 TCR · DART/TCR 16.85× in 2018

First Student Nashua's TCR rose 180.9 from 11.4 in 2016 to 192.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 16.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Nashua, NH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 254% of ind

  • DART 192.3 DART
  • RANK #32/32
  • PHOTO 2662-3103
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2662-3103 (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student Nashua in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student Nashua averages 11.4 TCR (254% 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 Nashua TCR series: 2016=11.4 · 2018=192.3 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Nashua falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Hampshire alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 32 School bus services employers in New Hampshire.

First Student Nashua (200 employees, TCR 11.4) 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 Nashua
First Student Nashua (200 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student Nashua has more 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
2018 192.3 192.3 2 0 0
2016 11.4 11.4 11 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · NH · Nashua

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,718 rated employers in New Hampshire with headcount on file · 179 employers in Nashua, NH · 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 2662-3103 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-4043 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Central School Corporation 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 26045 Portsmouth 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dartmouth Printing Company 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE RiverWoods Durham 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE FoodState Inc 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8311 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR BAE Systems Electronic Systems NHQ/MEC 1,943 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern New Hampshire Medical Center 1,737 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Joseph Hospital 1,515 FTE
CITY-NEAR BAE Systems Electronic Systems NCA 1,445 FTE
NAT-TCR LAS - Airport United Airlines Offices 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tampa (GCR) 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Palatine (Ilpal) 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn By Marriott Orangeburg 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holland - ME 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radiometer 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens-Illinois Glass Portland N21 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE PepsiCo DC 200 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: 2018, 2016. 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.