School bus services · Virginia

First Student Richmond

Richmond, VA · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student Richmond runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

First Student Richmond: 2.2 TCR = 50% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Richmond safety composite

First Student Richmond scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−6.2

2019→2023

First Student Richmond injury rate improved

First Student Richmond's TCR fell 6.2 from 6.2 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.2 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Richmond, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/12
  • PHOTO Johnstown
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Johnstown (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student Richmond in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student Richmond averages 2.2 TCR (50% 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 Richmond TCR series: 2019=6.2 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Richmond falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 12 School bus services employers in Virginia.

First Student Richmond (38 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Richmond
First Student Richmond (38 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student Richmond has fewer 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2019 6.2 6.2 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · VA · Richmond

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 939 employers in Richmond, VA · 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 Johnstown 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medford 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20466-Saddleback 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glenwood Foods, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 316-NiSource-Lynchburg VA-Serv Ctr 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHAH DEVELOPMENT LLC 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU Health System 14,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Commonwealth University 11,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU 5,271 FTE
CITY-NEAR CJW Medical Center 3,259 FTE
NAT-TCR Waters Taunton 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 032-Odessa/Clements St 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bimba Manufacturing Company 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Extol, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Craig 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wheatland Terrace 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Crescent Health Services 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Motion Systems : Lithia Springs 38 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, 2019. 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.