School bus services · Ohio

First Student

Lorain, OH · ~141 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student: 5.0 TCR = 111% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.9

2017→2024

First Student injury rate improved

First Student's TCR fell 4.9 from 4.9 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 23.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.9 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=23.2 · 2022=1.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Lorain, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 111% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #53/60
  • PHOTO McCarter Bus Garage
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McCarter Bus Garage (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 5.0 TCR (111% 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: 2017=4.9 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=23.2 · 2022=1.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 60 School bus services employers in Ohio.

First Student (141 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 (141 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 23.2 23.2 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 4 0 0
2017 4.9 2.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · OH · Lorain

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 85 employers in Lorain, OH · 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 McCarter Bus Garage 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 12605 - CONCORD 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student - Tulare 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 96920030-200 DS BUS LINES, INC.-BELTON 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delaware Container 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novagard Solutions LLC 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Regional Medical Center 1,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Regional Medical Center 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain Family Health Center & Surgery Center 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain FHC Surgery 412 FTE
NAT-TCR Hill International Trucks WWV 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR C.C. Construction, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Central Pennsylvania, L.P. (d/b/a Select Specialty Hospital - Camp Hill) 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 705GFD 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ecore International - York 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kamal Corp. 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE C&B Marine 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stepan Company Northfield 141 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.