School bus services · California

First student

Newman, CA · ~50 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First student runs at 4% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

First student: 0.2 TCR = 4% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First student safety composite

First student scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% 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%).

First student held a steady TCR band

First student's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Newman, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 4% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/119
  • PHOTO First Student 152 Rt…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Student 152 Rt. 206 S Hillsborough NJ (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 0.2 TCR (4% 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 TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where First student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 119 School bus services employers in California.

First student (50 employees, TCR 0.2) 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 (50 employees, TCR 0.2) 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 lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CA · Newman

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 15 employers in Newman, CA · 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 First Student 152 Rt. 206 S Hillsborough NJ 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 11321 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20245 - Coos Bay 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoyt Transportation Corp 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jack Bros., Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE M Three Ranches, LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penterman Farming Company 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trefethen Farming, LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saputo Cheese USA Inc. 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saputo Cheese_Newman 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR DMB Packing Corp. / The DiMare Company 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR San Luis Care Center 67 FTE
NAT-TCR Thompson Turner Construction 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Scientific Inc 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ergotron, Inc 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Halliburton Energy Services, Inc 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vishay Dale Plant 8 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courts 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arden Courts of Tampa 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Transport 50 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, 2022. 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.