Bus operation, school and employee · Pennsylvania

First Student Upper Merion

King of Prussia, PA · ~73 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student Upper Merion runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student Upper Merion: 5.4 TCR = 120% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Upper Merion safety composite

First Student Upper Merion scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 Upper Merion held a steady TCR band

First Student Upper Merion's TCR held near 0.2 from 8.3 in 2019 to 8.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · King of Prussia, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 120% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #146/227
  • PHOTO Mifflin County Termi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mifflin County Terminal (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student Upper Merion in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student Upper Merion averages 5.4 TCR (120% 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 Upper Merion TCR series: 2019=8.3 · 2020=0 · 2022=8 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Upper Merion falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #146 safest of 227 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Pennsylvania.

First Student Upper Merion (73 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Upper Merion
First Student Upper Merion (73 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student Upper Merion has fewer 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
2022 8.0 8.0 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 8.3 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · PA · King of Prussia

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 183 employers in King of Prussia, PA · 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 Mifflin County Terminal 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR STA-Grand Junction 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 313006-York | ME | SME-100 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3090 CENTRAL REGION-WHEELING 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE NRG Energy - Seward Generating Station 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE McMurray Operations 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Philly Schuylkill 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wohlsen Construction Self Perform 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR 199897 9,243 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Valley Forge (1029) 2,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSL Behring, King of Prussia 1,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DPH2 1,109 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Y Foods, Inc. Peabody 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SuperMax Almacen Central 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-01503 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4459 Associated Home Care, LLC 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG593 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plaspack USA, Inc (Freshtech Antigo, WI) 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barbara Lenard 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-ASM-NE 73 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: 2022, 2020, 2019. 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.