School bus services · Illinois

First Student

Rock Falls, IL · ~65 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student: 7.0 TCR = 155% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y 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 dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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: 4.4 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

First Student's TCR rose 5.9 from 4.4 in 2022 to 10.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Rock Falls, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 155% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #88/110
  • PHOTO All-Star-Winchester
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: All-Star-Winchester (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 7.0 TCR (155% 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: 2022=4.4 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=10.3 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 110 School bus services employers in Illinois.

First Student (65 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 (65 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student has fewer 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 10.3 6.2 5 0 0
2023 6.2 6.2 1 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · IL · Rock Falls

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 22 employers in Rock Falls, IL · 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 All-Star-Winchester 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 163518-Torrington | CT | 163518 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7075 TRANSIT REGION-CHARLESTON SC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maintenance Building 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience McLeansboro Production 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bluff City Materials - Corporate Office 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vector Services 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yorkville Reporting Center 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR IFH Group Inc 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR The IFH Group, Inc. 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 830 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR 830 102 FTE
NAT-TCR Key Home Health Care 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Milton Home Nursing and Rehabilitation 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Platte 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 110 Lubbock 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thomas Construction Group LLC 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Careone at Evesham Assisted Living 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rohn Industries 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pace Industries Jel 65 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, 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.