School bus services · Massachusetts

First Student Springfield 12532

Springfield, MA · ~361 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student Springfield 12532 runs at 1% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade A.

First Student Springfield 12532: 0.1 TCR = 1% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Springfield 12532 safety composite

First Student Springfield 12532 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

First Student Springfield 12532 held a steady TCR band

First Student Springfield 12532's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.1 in 2016 to 0.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.1 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.1 · 2017=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Springfield, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 1% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/47
  • PHOTO Lackawanna
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~361 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lackawanna (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student Springfield 12532 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student Springfield 12532 averages 0.1 TCR (1% 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 Springfield 12532 TCR series: 2016=0.1 · 2017=0.1 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Springfield 12532 falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 47 School bus services employers in Massachusetts.

First Student Springfield 12532 (361 employees, TCR 0.1) 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 Springfield 12532
First Student Springfield 12532 (361 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student Springfield 12532 has more employees than the School bus services 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
2017 0.1 0.0 11 0 0
2016 0.1 0.0 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MA · Springfield

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 215 employers in Springfield, MA · 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 Lackawanna 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 11323 Central City 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walden Ave 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Thermofisher Scientific 361 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2386 361 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bedford - 176 Middlesex Parkway 361 FTE
STATE-SIZE Xfinity Center 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMC - Baystate Medical Center 8,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMP - Baystate Medical Practices 1,977 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Tarp Redevelopment, LLC d/b/a MGM Springfield 1,867 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMF - Baystate Medical Practices 1,746 FTE
NAT-TCR PA-01 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Instrumentation : Pine Brook 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JLL Corporate Office - Chicago IL 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR US TX Round Rock 05 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Minneapolis - St. Paul Airport (Mnmtp) 361 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Britain Hand Tools 361 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mannington US LVT 361 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poet LLC 361 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: 2017, 2016. 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.