Bus operation, school and employee · Connecticut

First Student

Name: First Student Workplace Safety Data
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Watertown, CT · ~57 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.9
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

First Student runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade B.

First Student: 2.9 TCR = 63% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% 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).

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.71 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%).

Rising injury rate

First Student: 0.0 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

First Student's TCR rose 5.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Watertown, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 63% of ind

DART 5.7 DART
RANK #37/113
PHOTO Wickliffe
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wickliffe (0.0 TCR gap)

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96920019-2 TOW

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2.9

What this shows First Student averages 2.9 TCR (63% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

First Student TCR series: 2016=0 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 113 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Connecticut.

First Student (57 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student has fewer employees than the Bus operation, school and employee median and a lower 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	5.7	5.7	1	1	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · CT · Watertown

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 55 employers in Watertown, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Wickliffe	WICKLIFFE, OH	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	3096 CENTRAL REGION-URBANDALE SAYDEL	URBANDALE, IA	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	96920019-2 TOWNE BUS CORP.-WE TRANS - PINEAIRE	BAY SHORE, NY	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hazleton Terminal	HAZLETON, PA	2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Rogers Orchards	SOUTHINGTON	57 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fusco Corporation	NEW HAVEN	57 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Main Office, Shop, Yard & Jobsites	BROOKFIELD	57 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Summit Masonry and Building Restoration	WEST HAVEN	57 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CTWAT - WATERBURY	Watertown	573 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WATERBURY (CTWAT)	Watertown	524 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Watertown Public Schools	Watertown	503 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Global Steering Systems	Watertown	359 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ncgol - Goldsboro Center	Goldsboro, NC	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bway Cedar City	Cedar City, UT	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Secon Rubber and Plastics INC	Red Bud, IL	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tradewinds Services, Inc.	Merrillville, IN	2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Waterfall Health of Algoma	Algoma, WI	57 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Technetics Group Chicago, LLC	Harwood Heights, IL	57 FTE
NAT-SIZE	North Country Lumber CO., Inc.	Mellen, WI	57 FTE
NAT-SIZE	EMS - Arbor Glen Senior Living	Lake Elmo, MN	57 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, 2016. 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.