School bus services · Wisconsin

First Student

Wausau, WI · ~80 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 340% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade F.

First Student: 15.3 TCR = 340% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.2

2018→2024

First Student injury rate improved

First Student's TCR fell 10.2 from 10.2 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 35.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.2 · 2022=35.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Wausau, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.3 · 340% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #48/48
  • PHOTO 20956 Charleston Are…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 20956 Charleston Area-A (0.1 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 15.3 TCR (340% 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: 2018=10.2 · 2022=35.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #48 safest of 48 School bus services employers in Wisconsin.

First Student (80 employees, TCR 15.3) 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 (80 employees, TCR 15.3) 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 35.7 17.8 2 0 0
2018 10.2 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · WI · Wausau

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 153 employers in Wausau, 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 20956 Charleston Area-A 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 393_1442 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 11938 Iroquois 15.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mavid Construction Sevices LLC 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lexington Homes 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bob Anderson Builders, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infinity Exteriors LLC 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Wausau Hospital 2,551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Inc 1,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Clinic Inc. 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork Co., Inc. 900 FTE
NAT-TCR Portland Hospital Service Corporation 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Automotive Technology Inc. 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 124 - Moreno Valley 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Somerby Sandy Springs 15.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jack in the Box 3395 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at St Thomas University Dining 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Santa Fe Lodge 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monitor Manufacturing Augusta 80 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, 2022, 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.