School bus services · Washington

First Student - Seattle

Seattle, WA · ~286 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student - Seattle runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student - Seattle: 5.0 TCR = 112% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student - Seattle safety composite

First Student - Seattle scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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 - Seattle: 4.8 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

First Student - Seattle's TCR rose 0.6 from 4.8 in 2023 to 5.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 112% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #10/21
  • PHOTO Auburn Transit
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~286 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Auburn Transit (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student - Seattle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student - Seattle averages 5.0 TCR (112% 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 - Seattle TCR series: 2023=4.8 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student - Seattle falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 21 School bus services employers in Washington.

First Student - Seattle (286 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 - Seattle
First Student - Seattle (286 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student - Seattle 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 5.3 3.6 11 1 0
2023 4.8 4.0 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · WA · Seattle

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, WA · 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 Auburn Transit 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palm Springs 20406 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR STA-Columbia (MIZ-000) 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Yakima Golding Farm-John I. Haas, Inc. 286 FTE
STATE-SIZE Port Townsend Paper Corporation 286 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawthorne Vancouver Distribution Center 286 FTE
STATE-SIZE Motion Systems : Enumclaw 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The United States of America 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starz Entertainment 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW 11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR Carter Lumber 239 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Butler Memorial Hospital 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Zeigler Berwyn Preowned 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nclen - Lenoir 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ev-Air-Tight Services LLC 286 FTE
NAT-SIZE United States Environmental Services, L.L.C. 286 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alhun - Huntsville 286 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohcan - Canton 286 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. 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.