School bus services · Michigan

First Student Niles

Niles, MI · ~57 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student Niles runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student Niles: 8.3 TCR = 185% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Niles safety composite

First Student Niles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

−2.9

2018→2022

First Student Niles injury rate improved

First Student Niles's TCR fell 2.9 from 12.3 in 2018 to 9.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=12.3 · 2019=6.0 · 2020=7.1 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=9.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.3 · 185% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #67/74
  • PHOTO 2662-4031
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2662-4031 (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student Niles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student Niles averages 8.3 TCR (185% 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 Niles TCR series: 2018=12.3 · 2019=6 · 2020=7.1 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=9.4 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Niles falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #67 safest of 74 School bus services employers in Michigan.

First Student Niles (57 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Niles
First Student Niles (57 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student Niles 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
2022 9.4 9.4 3 0 0
2021 6.8 6.8 2 0 0
2020 7.1 3.6 2 0 0
2019 6.0 6.0 2 0 0
2018 12.3 6.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Niles

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 68 employers in Niles, 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 2662-4031 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 483036-Elizabeth Forward | PA | 483036 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-4046 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-4053 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bloomingdale MI Facility 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville SC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dickinson Homes 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concraft Inc 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Hospital Niles 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2010 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Hospital - Niles 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2010 331 FTE
NAT-TCR Phi - Tx 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mission Rubber Company LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Mary's Home 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR East Coast Lightning Equipment Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Structural Modulars, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 8008 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foam Products Corp. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hamilton Memorial Rehab & Healthcare Center 57 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.