Bus terminal operation, independent · Connecticut

First Student Somers

Somers, CT · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

First Student Somers runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus terminal operation, independent workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student Somers: 4.5 TCR = 99% of Bus terminal operation, independent BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Somers safety composite

First Student Somers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 Somers: 0.0 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

First Student Somers's TCR rose 8.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488490 · Somers, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 99% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Nashville
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nashville (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student Somers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student Somers averages 4.5 TCR (99% of the Bus terminal operation, independent BLS benchmark).

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

First Student Somers TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=8.9 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Somers falls in its industry

370 Bus terminal operation, indepe establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Bus terminal operation, indepe employers in Connecticut.

First Student Somers (20 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate First Student Somers
First Student Somers (20 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.4

First Student Somers has fewer employees than the Bus terminal operation, independent median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2018 8.9 8.9 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488490 · CT · Somers

370 Bus terminal operation, independent employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 13 employers in Somers, CT · 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 Nashville 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RSS Trailer Repair 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Road Department 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Online Transport Bristol TN Domicile 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Voluntown 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Newtown Gas 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water & Sewer - Spring Street 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middletown Water Department 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osborn Correctional Institution 319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headquarter 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Correctional Institution 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osborn Correctional institution - Health services 161 FTE
NAT-TCR Chesapeake Depot 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston FC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR P2 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Good Samaritan Society - Olathe 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sayreville Power Plant 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alside Supply Center #131 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arby's 5608 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville (W97) 20 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: 2018, 2016. 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.