Bus operation, school and employee · Illinois

first student springfield

Springfield, IL · ~327 workers · 3 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 springfield runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

first student springfield: 4.5 TCR = 100% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

first student springfield safety composite

first student springfield scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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 springfield: 3.4 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

first student springfield's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.4 in 2022 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 100% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #56/110
  • PHOTO 143016-Riverside | C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~327 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 143016-Riverside | CA | SAN-543 (0.0 TCR gap)

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first student springfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows first student springfield averages 4.5 TCR (100% 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 springfield TCR series: 2022=3.4 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 4.5

Where first student springfield falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 110 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Illinois.

first student springfield (327 employees, TCR 4.5) 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
first student springfield (327 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

first student springfield has more employees than the Bus operation, school and employee 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 4.4 4.4 9 0 0
2023 5.6 4.6 16 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · IL · Springfield

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 311 employers in Springfield, IL · 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 143016-Riverside | CA | SAN-543 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DATTCO - Plainville 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-2019 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 481 327 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5399 327 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1735 327 FTE
STATE-SIZE 300000170856029 - IL-Chicago-Operating Center 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center 4,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Memorial Hospital 3,837 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Clinic, LLP 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. John's Hospital 2,696 FTE
NAT-TCR 8958 Bellport 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington Cooperative Markets 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Watson, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ochsner St. Mary 327 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shield Healthcare Valencia 327 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denny Sanford PREMIER Center 327 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland, TN 327 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, 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.