School bus services · California

First Student - San Jose

San Jose, CA · ~63 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student - San Jose runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade F.

First Student - San Jose: 10.6 TCR = 236% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student - San Jose safety composite

First Student - San Jose scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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 - San Jose: 10.2 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2023

First Student - San Jose's TCR rose 0.9 from 10.2 in 2022 to 11.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · San Jose, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 236% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #101/119
  • PHOTO 562-Waterloo
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 562-Waterloo (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student - San Jose in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student - San Jose averages 10.6 TCR (236% 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 - San Jose TCR series: 2022=10.2 · 2023=11.1 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student - San Jose falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #101 safest of 119 School bus services employers in California.

First Student - San Jose (63 employees, TCR 10.6) 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 - San Jose
First Student - San Jose (63 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student - San Jose 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
2023 11.1 5.5 4 0 0
2022 10.2 8.2 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CA · San Jose

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,102 employers in San Jose, 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 562-Waterloo 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dean Transportation, Inc. - Cedar Springs 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tumwater School District Transportation Facility 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dean Transportation, Inc. - Roscommon 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE VF - Lodi 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Ventures, Inc. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goossen Farms Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NGW, LLC 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-CALIFORNIA.SAN JOSE 11,308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, Valley Medical Center (Hospital & Clinics) 7,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rosendin - Main 6,964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC & Clinics) 6,576 FTE
NAT-TCR Casey's Market 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cary Fire Protection District 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TrimLine Windows 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Interim HealthCare Of Lake Superior 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rose Construction, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Perspective Franklin 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitek 63 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.