School bus services · Missouri

First Student

St Joseph, MO · ~128 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

First Student runs at 313% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade F.

First Student: 14.1 TCR = 313% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−14.1

2023→2024

First Student injury rate improved

First Student's TCR fell 14.1 from 21.1 in 2023 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 21.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=21.1 · 2024=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · St Joseph, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.1 · 313% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #47/48
  • PHOTO 373006-Wake County |…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 373006-Wake County | NC | 373006 (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Missouri employers → · Look up another →

First Student in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student averages 14.1 TCR (313% 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 TCR series: 2023=21.1 · 2024=7 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 48 School bus services employers in Missouri.

First Student (128 employees, TCR 14.1) 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
First Student (128 employees, TCR 14.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student 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 7.0 7.0 6 0 0
2023 21.1 14.1 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MO · St Joseph

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 37 employers in St Joseph, MO · 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 373006-Wake County | NC | 373006 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 193012-Jacksonville North | FL | 193012 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shasta County Office of Education 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 393006-Omaha | NE | NEB-000 13.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE StraightUp Solar 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4266 Chesterfield Container 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curia 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope Warrenton 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Joseph Plant 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph DAP 427 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST. JOSEPH MO - 3210 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Jo Frontier Casino 193 FTE
NAT-TCR Logan Square 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Marysville #008 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR West Valley #075 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Paramount Senior Living at Middleburg Heights 14.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holtger Bros., Inc. 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Pointe Care Center 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint Augustine Renaissance 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Southside 128 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.