Bus operation, school and employee · California

First Student

Richmond, CA · ~115 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 336% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade F.

First Student: 15.1 TCR = 336% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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: 13.3 → 17.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2023

First Student's TCR rose 3.7 from 13.3 in 2022 to 17.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Richmond, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.1 · 336% of ind

  • DART 17.0 DART
  • RANK #113/119
  • PHOTO 20414-Corona
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 20414-Corona (0.1 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 15.1 TCR (336% 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: 2022=13.3 · 2023=17 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #113 safest of 119 Bus operation, school and empl employers in California.

First Student (115 employees, TCR 15.1) 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
First Student (115 employees, TCR 15.1) 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 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
2023 17.0 17.0 10 0 0
2022 13.3 13.3 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CA · Richmond

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 158 employers in Richmond, CA · 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 20414-Corona 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 193008-Santa Rosa | FL | JAX-200 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20956 Charleston Area-A 15.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buona Terra Farming 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROSE & A FLC 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-CSBU - Covina 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Visalia Base - Bld: 0080 - 15 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 134 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 635 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 147 2,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 105 2,724 FTE
NAT-TCR Tulsa #156 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 913 Ofa32 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Auburn 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Danville Ambulance Service 15.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Columbus Modified Fiber 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gold Crown Nursery, LLC 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dynex Technologies, Inc. 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyundai Steel (Alabama) 115 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: 2023, 2022. 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.