School bus services · Wisconsin

First Student

Waukesha, WI · ~122 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student: 6.1 TCR = 135% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 4y 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 1%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 22.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 → 22.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 22.7 TCR · DART/TCR 3.75× in 2022

First Student's TCR rose 22.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 22.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 3.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Waukesha, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 135% of ind

  • DART 22.7 DART
  • RANK #33/48
  • PHOTO 4148 EAST REGION-NOR…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4148 EAST REGION-NORWALK CT (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 6.1 TCR (135% 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 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=0.1 · 2022=22.7 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 48 School bus services employers in Wisconsin.

First Student (122 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 (122 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 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
2022 22.7 22.7 2 0 0
2020 0.1 0.1 1 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · WI · Waukesha

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 285 employers in Waukesha, WI · 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 4148 EAST REGION-NORWALK CT 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yelm Community Schools Transportation Facility 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR STA - Paterson/Fairlawn 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2006 WEST REGION-OXNARD 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oostburg Concrete Products 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Security Luebke Roofing 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE SCHOEP'S ICE CREAM - DIVISION STREET 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Bay Nonwovens 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukesha Memorial Hospital 2,210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Generac-Waukesha 1,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEHC : Waukesha WI (WSO), HCS 1,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Generac Power Systems, Inc. 1,090 FTE
NAT-TCR USM Store #506 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 8712 Jericho City Drive 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Food Giant #640 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers #122 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CANTEX INC. Auburndale 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at W&M Sadler Building 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper Mount Vernon Container 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE USM Store #536 122 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, 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.