Bus operation, school and employee · Connecticut

First Student

Stamford, CT · ~144 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade F.

First Student: 11.3 TCR = 250% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 3y 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 dart rate (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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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: 6.7 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2024

First Student's TCR rose 6.0 from 6.7 in 2022 to 12.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Stamford, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 250% of ind

  • DART 12.8 DART
  • RANK #111/113
  • PHOTO 26045 Portsmouth
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 26045 Portsmouth (0.0 TCR gap)

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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 11.3 TCR (250% 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 TCR series: 2022=6.7 · 2023=14.3 · 2024=12.8 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #111 safest of 113 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Connecticut.

First Student (144 employees, TCR 11.3) 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 (144 employees, TCR 11.3) 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 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 12.8 12.8 3 0 0
2023 14.3 11.9 6 0 0
2022 6.7 6.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CT · Stamford

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 173 employers in Stamford, 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 26045 Portsmouth 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Central School Corporation 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-3103 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SJUSD Transportation 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 100623 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE STOP & SHOP 100639 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2433 - Lisbon 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berlin High School 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR CT-02 4,098 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stamford Health 3,106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stamford Hospital 2,599 FTE
CITY-NEAR Board of Education 2,457 FTE
NAT-TCR D F Richard Inc 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowling Green Ky 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeastern Food Merchandisers LP 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Development Workshop, Inc. Rexburg 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frequency Electronics Inc 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fungi Perfecti LLC 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE F. Radich Motors Inc., DBA Elk Grove Honda 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier - Omaha 144 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.

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

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