Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

First Student Southfield 12701

Southfield, MI · ~120 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student Southfield 12701 runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student Southfield 12701: 4.0 TCR = 88% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Southfield 12701 safety composite

First Student Southfield 12701 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−8.0

2018→2020

First Student Southfield 12701 injury rate improved

First Student Southfield 12701's TCR fell 8.0 from 8.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Southfield, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #31/74
  • PHOTO Yamhill-Carlton
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yamhill-Carlton (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student Southfield 12701 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student Southfield 12701 averages 4.0 TCR (88% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

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

First Student Southfield 12701 TCR series: 2018=8 · 2020=0 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Southfield 12701 falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

First Student Southfield 12701 (120 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Southfield 12701
First Student Southfield 12701 (120 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student Southfield 12701 has more employees than the Bus operation, school and employee median and a lower 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.0 6.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Southfield

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 175 employers in Southfield, MI · 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 Yamhill-Carlton 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 143006-Santa Maria | CA | SAN-520 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4010 CENTRAL REGION-GRAYSLAKE 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR School Bus Company 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elzinga & Volkers Inc. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fennville MI 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ovid Plant 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ludington Plant 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIDET210 ASCENSION PROVIDENCE HOSP - SOUTHFIELD 2,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIDET210 2,027 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barton Malow Holdings, LLC 1,959 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO International America, inc. 1,503 FTE
NAT-TCR IPC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tobey Construction 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HR Properties, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Orizon Aerostructures 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Williamson Street Grocery Cooperative East 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMCO Lexington Operations 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peckham Road Corp 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt(Georgia Box), INC 120 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: 2020, 2018. 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.