School bus services · Illinois

First Student Northbrook

Name: First Student Northbrook Workplace Safety Data
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Northbrook, IL · ~177 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.8
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

First Student Northbrook runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

First Student Northbrook: 1.8 TCR = 40% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Northbrook safety composite

First Student Northbrook scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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 Northbrook: 0.7 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.59× in 2024

First Student Northbrook's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.7 in 2023 to 2.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Northbrook, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 40% of ind

DART 2.9 DART
RANK #8/110
PHOTO 3066 SOUTH CENTRAL-H…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3066 SOUTH CENTRAL-HINDS COUNTY MS (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows First Student Northbrook averages 1.8 TCR (40% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

First Student Northbrook TCR series: 2023=0.7 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Northbrook falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 110 School bus services employers in Illinois.

First Student Northbrook (177 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student Northbrook has more 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	2.9	2.9	4	0	0
2023	0.7	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · IL · Northbrook

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 122 employers in Northbrook, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	3066 SOUTH CENTRAL-HINDS COUNTY MS	RAYMOND, MS	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Freeport	FREEPORT, NY	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	96920028-3 ALLTOWN BUS SERVICE-SKOKIE	SKOKIE, IL	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	First Student-Miami Valley 20785	DAYTON, OH	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	ADM Decatur Illinois	MT ZION	177 FTE
STATE-SIZE	All-Tech Decorating Co	ROMEOVILLE	177 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Teasdale Latin Foods (Hoopeston, IL)	HOOPESTON	177 FTE
STATE-SIZE	40th/ Exchange	CHICAGO	177 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Astellas Pharma US	Northbrook	1,228 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Astellas Pharma Global Development	Northbrook	908 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Astellas US LLC	Northbrook	896 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ILNOR - NORTHBROOK	Northbrook	780 FTE
NAT-TCR	Lynchburg Plant	Lynchburg, VA	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Huhtamaki, Inc.	Andalusia, AL	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Spectrum Metal Recycling	Houston, TX	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kureha PGA LLC	Belle, WV	1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Encoder Products Company	Sagle, ID	177 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Oaks on Parkwood	Bessemer, AL	177 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rocky Mount 07	Rocky Mount, NC	177 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Terwilliger Plaza	Portland, OR	177 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. 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.