Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) · California

First Student

San Rafael, CA · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) workplace, earning a grade F.

First Student: 10.8 TCR = 241% of Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−9.3

2022→2023

First Student injury rate improved

First Student's TCR fell 9.3 from 15.5 in 2022 to 6.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=15.5 · 2023=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · San Rafael, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 241% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #55/65
  • PHOTO Transit
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transit (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 10.8 TCR (241% of the Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

First Student TCR series: 2022=15.5 · 2023=6.2 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

332 Bus services, urban and suburb establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 65 Bus services, urban and suburb employers in California.

First Student (36 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate First Student
First Student (36 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

First Student has fewer employees than the Bus services, urban and suburban (except median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 6.2 0.0 2 0 0
2022 15.5 15.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · CA · San Rafael

332 Bus services, urban and suburban (except mixed mode) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 115 employers in San Rafael, 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 Transit 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-7014 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3800 MONTGOMERY BUS FACILITY 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greyhound Lines, Inc. 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02121151 1,372 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay Area Community Resources 1,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02621151 1,007 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02821151 SAN RAFAEL HOSPITAL 834 FTE
NAT-TCR Stockyards Station Hotel LP 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Granville House 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard Fountains 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nissen Chemitec America Inc 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Kempton at Brightmore 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulf Coast Flooring & Services 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trego/Dugan Aviation Inc Cmh 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Technology Center 36 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.