School bus services · Texas

First Student The Colony

The Colony, TX · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student The Colony runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student The Colony: 5.7 TCR = 126% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student The Colony safety composite

First Student The Colony scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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 The Colony held a steady TCR band

First Student The Colony's TCR held near 0.0 from 5.7 in 2018 to 5.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.7 · 2019=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · The Colony, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #46/65
  • PHOTO 2662-3021
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2662-3021 (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student The Colony in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student The Colony averages 5.7 TCR (126% 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 The Colony TCR series: 2018=5.7 · 2019=5.7 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student The Colony falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 65 School bus services employers in Texas.

First Student The Colony (110 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 The Colony
First Student The Colony (110 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student The Colony 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
2019 5.7 5.7 4 0 0
2018 5.7 5.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · TX · The Colony

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 32 employers in The Colony, TX · 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 2662-3021 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 233006-Meridian | ID | SAN-700 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DATTCO - Trumbull 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Freeport LNG HQ 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pearsall 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Communications Construction, Inc. 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Invista Houston TX 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nebraska Furniture Mart 1,583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colony Texas 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Topgolf The Colony 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edward Don & Company- TX 149 FTE
NAT-TCR DieTech Tool & Mfg 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Go-To Transport, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington Marriott at Metro Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0000000301 Public Works-Streets 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burns Industrial Equipment 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens Illinois Brockway Plant 18 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winnebago County 110 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: 2019, 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.