School bus services · Massachusetts

First Student Plymouth

Plymouth, MA · ~85 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student Plymouth runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

First Student Plymouth: 1.1 TCR = 24% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Plymouth safety composite

First Student Plymouth scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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 Plymouth: 0.0 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2024

First Student Plymouth's TCR rose 2.2 from 0.0 in 2023 to 2.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Plymouth, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 24% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #5/47
  • PHOTO 12717 William Floyd
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 12717 William Floyd (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student Plymouth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student Plymouth averages 1.1 TCR (24% 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 Plymouth TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Plymouth falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 47 School bus services employers in Massachusetts.

First Student Plymouth (85 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 Plymouth
First Student Plymouth (85 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student Plymouth 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 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MA · Plymouth

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 101 employers in Plymouth, MA · 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 12717 William Floyd 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 27022 Gardner 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AC-School Services, Inc 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RCX Indiana 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE IPS - Integrated Project Services, LLC - Cardinal 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE BlueHive/Continental Woodcraft 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE 90003930 Canal 3 Simple Cycle Project 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-MA-Wilmington- Research Drive 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beth Israel Deaconess Plymouth 1,939 FTE
CITY-NEAR BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL-PLYMOUTH 1,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tech Etch Plymouth 534 FTE
NAT-TCR Riverside Healthcare Services 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Novelis 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Vista Substation 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ideal Setech Share-the-Spare, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE G.A. Productions, LLC 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE 124 Cottleville 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE 706 Bloomington 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Electrostatics Corporation 85 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.