Bus operation, school and employee · New Jersey

First Student

East Orange, NJ · ~75 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade A.

First Student: 1.0 TCR = 23% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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%).

Rising injury rate

First Student: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

First Student's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2021 to 2.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · East Orange, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 23% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/48
  • PHOTO STA - Pine-Richland
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STA - Pine-Richland (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 1.0 TCR (23% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

First Student TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=2.1 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 48 Bus operation, school and empl employers in New Jersey.

First Student (75 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 (75 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student has more employees than the Bus operation, school and employee 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
2022 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · NJ · East Orange

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 18 employers in East Orange, NJ · 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 STA - Pine-Richland 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20594 West Warwick 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palmer Bus Service of Austin, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 143008-Tulare/Visalia | CA | SAN-549 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carson Corporation 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-NJ-Cranbury-Corporate Drive 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Josloff Industries, LLC 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sant-Tec Electric, Inc. 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Orange General Hospital 851 FTE
CITY-NEAR EOH Acquisition Group 790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prospect EOGH Inc. 784 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite of East Orange 345 FTE
NAT-TCR Engineering and Technical Support 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Colwell Electric 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 589 - Buena Park 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kozik Brothers Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE A&A Machine & Fabrication, LLC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morries Brooklyn Park Subaru 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Piston Ring 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azria Health Ashland 75 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.