School bus services · Michigan

First Student-Saginaw

Saginaw, MI · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student-Saginaw runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

First Student-Saginaw: 2.0 TCR = 44% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student-Saginaw safety composite

First Student-Saginaw scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

First Student-Saginaw held a steady TCR band

First Student-Saginaw's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.1 in 2018 to 1.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.1 · 2022=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Saginaw, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 44% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #11/74
  • PHOTO Transportation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transportation (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student-Saginaw in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student-Saginaw averages 2.0 TCR (44% 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-Saginaw TCR series: 2018=2.1 · 2022=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student-Saginaw falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 74 School bus services employers in Michigan.

First Student-Saginaw (95 employees, TCR 2.0) 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-Saginaw
First Student-Saginaw (95 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student-Saginaw 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
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2018 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Saginaw

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 278 employers in Saginaw, MI · 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 Transportation 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palmer Bus Service of Zumbrota Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DATTCO - Durham 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR First StudentCedar Hill 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Michigan Freeze Pack 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan Milk Producers Association 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cargill Salt 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harbor Graphics 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nexteer Automotive Saginaw Site 4,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR 700 Cooper 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morley - Saginaw 2,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caravan Facilities Management 1,677 FTE
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Oceanside 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR M1315 Springs Memor 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction Innovations 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodlands Village 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Junction Boulevard 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coit Cleaning and Restoration 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Rucker Facilities Support Services 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips Spectranetics 95 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: 2022, 2018. 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.