School bus services · Kansas

First Student Wichita

Wichita, KS · ~700 workers · 3 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 Wichita runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student Wichita: 6.1 TCR = 135% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student Wichita safety composite

First Student Wichita scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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 Wichita: 4.7 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2023

First Student Wichita's TCR rose 3.8 from 4.7 in 2018 to 8.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Wichita, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 135% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #15/22
  • PHOTO Southern Columbia Sc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 82 inj
  • SIZE ~700 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern Columbia School Bus Garage (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Student Wichita in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Student Wichita 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 Wichita TCR series: 2018=4.7 · 2022=5 · 2023=8.5 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student Wichita falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 22 School bus services employers in Kansas.

First Student Wichita (700 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate First Student Wichita
First Student Wichita (700 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 Wichita 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
2023 8.5 6.3 40 1 0
2022 5.0 3.9 23 0 0
2018 4.7 3.6 19 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · KS · Wichita

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, KS · 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 Southern Columbia School Bus Garage 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR William Floyd 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BRANDYWINE CW LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2006 WEST REGION-OXNARD 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Goodwill Garden City 700 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Band Casino & Resort 706 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas Star Casino 710 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wichita KS Main 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR Continental Tide Defense Systems 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Alcal Santa Rosa MP 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bashas 008 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Trucks Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Exelixis, Inc 700 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bon Secours St Francis Medical Center 700 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Rogers Community Services 700 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rogue Fitness 700 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, 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.