School bus services · California

First Student - San Mateo

San Carlos, CA · ~84 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student - San Mateo runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student - San Mateo: 8.6 TCR = 191% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student - San Mateo safety composite

First Student - San Mateo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−7.9

2021→2024

First Student - San Mateo injury rate improved

First Student - San Mateo's TCR fell 7.9 from 11.0 in 2021 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=11.0 · 2022=15.2 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 191% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #89/119
  • PHOTO 293011-Middleborough…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 293011-Middleborough | MA | 293011 (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student - San Mateo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student - San Mateo averages 8.6 TCR (191% 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 Mateo TCR series: 2021=11 · 2022=15.2 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student - San Mateo falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #89 safest of 119 School bus services employers in California.

First Student - San Mateo (84 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 Mateo
First Student - San Mateo (84 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student - San Mateo has more 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 3.1 3.1 2 0 0
2023 5.1 5.1 3 0 0
2022 15.2 15.2 4 5 0
2021 11.0 4.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CA · San Carlos

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 57 employers in San Carlos, 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 293011-Middleborough | MA | 293011 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centennial School District Service Center 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-4105 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transportation and Maintenance 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE montalvo farms 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hansen Custom Farming, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilarides Dairy 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Service, LLC. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rudolph and Sletten 686 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Medical Foundation (30507) 534 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10145) 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR San Mateo County Transit District 293 FTE
NAT-TCR ULTRALawn Company 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Havasu Regional Medical Center - FNS 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SGII INC - Westside 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR New Horizons Limestone 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Granite Shore Power 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altium Packaging - Argos 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altium Packaging - Reidsville 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nostrum Laboratories Inc. - KC 84 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, 2021. 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.