Bus operation, school and employee · Michigan

First Student

Troy, MI · ~81 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

First Student: 4.4 TCR = 99% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 8y 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 16%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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: 4.4 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2023

First Student's TCR rose 1.6 from 4.4 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Troy, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 99% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #40/74
  • PHOTO 533015-Navasota | TX…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 533015-Navasota | TX | TEX-775 (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 4.4 TCR (99% 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: 2016=4.4 · 2017=10.5 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=2 · 2023=6 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 74 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Michigan.

First Student (81 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 (81 employees, TCR 4.4) 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
2023 6.0 6.0 3 0 0
2022 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.4 4.3 3 0 0
2018 6.3 2.1 3 0 0
2017 10.5 4.2 4 1 0
2016 4.4 4.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MI · Troy

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 237 employers in Troy, MI · 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 533015-Navasota | TX | TEX-775 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 563008-Washington | VT | ACY-200 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3043 WEST REGION-WOODLAND PARK 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6004 GREAT LAKES REGION-MONROE OH 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer HI-BRED INTL INC, Constantine MI 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Flint 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Detroit International Holding 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE TCCo-MI 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2250-309 5,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Troy - Maple Road 1,702 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headquarters 1,607 FTE
CITY-NEAR Troy - Maple Road 1,361 FTE
NAT-TCR Knox Lee 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Caboy - Boyle Trailer Shop (Pac Reg) 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Weiss Center 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ASPC Eyman 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shreveport Dodge LLC DBA Landers Dodge Cjrf 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suddath Relocation Systems of Ft. Lauderdale, Inc. 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Impullitti Landscaping LLC 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landmark of Midwest City 81 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.