School bus services · Connecticut

First Student- New Britain, CT

New Britain, CT · ~113 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student- New Britain, CT runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student- New Britain, CT: 4.7 TCR = 104% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student- New Britain, CT safety composite

First Student- New Britain, CT scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−2.1

2019→2024

First Student- New Britain, CT injury rate improved

First Student- New Britain, CT's TCR fell 2.1 from 6.6 in 2019 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.6 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · New Britain, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 104% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #69/113
  • PHOTO Morrow County
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morrow County (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student- New Britain, CT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student- New Britain, CT averages 4.7 TCR (104% 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- New Britain, CT TCR series: 2019=6.6 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student- New Britain, CT falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 113 School bus services employers in Connecticut.

First Student- New Britain, CT (113 employees, TCR 4.7) 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- New Britain, CT
First Student- New Britain, CT (113 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student- New Britain, CT 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
2024 4.5 2.2 4 0 0
2023 2.9 0.0 2 0 0
2019 6.6 4.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CT · New Britain

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 113 employers in New Britain, CT · 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 Morrow County 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3056 WEST REGION-HUTCHINSON 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4121 WEST REGION-COPPELL TX 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portsmouth 26045 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE International Paper 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rogers Corporation EMS-W 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2904-100000547 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6206 FAIRFIELD CT 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campus 2,582 FTE
CITY-NEAR HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL CT-NB 2,373 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Hospital of Central Connecticut-NB 2,042 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital For Special Care 1,176 FTE
NAT-TCR S09062 - Marana Regional Landfill 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Morrow County 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-Valley Clinic 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kraemer Farms LLC 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Armaly Sponge Co 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central County Transportation Authority 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bensalem 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johansen Construction Company 113 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, 2019. 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.