School bus services · Louisiana

First Student

Zachary, LA · ~100 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade D.

First Student: 6.0 TCR = 133% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

2016→2022

First Student injury rate improved

First Student's TCR fell 10.2 from 11.3 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.3 · 2018=10.3 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Zachary, LA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 133% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #19/20
  • PHOTO 3000 TRANSPORTATION
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3000 TRANSPORTATION (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 6.0 TCR (133% 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=11.3 · 2018=10.3 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=1.1 · 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 Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 20 School bus services employers in Louisiana.

First Student (100 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 (100 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2018 10.3 10.3 4 2 0
2016 11.3 5.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · LA · Zachary

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 32 employers in Zachary, LA · 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 3000 TRANSPORTATION 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR W.L. Roenigk Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4006 CENTRAL REGION-ANTIOCH 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20054 Botsford 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at Monsanto Luling 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Siema Construction LLC Lafayette 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrandSafway LLC - Shintech Chemical - Plaquemine 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walle Corporation 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR LA090 Port Hudson Paper 578 FTE
CITY-NEAR 428 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 428 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trade Construction Company, LLC 259 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bovina Cattle Company 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR R.F Mau CO 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0030-0030-00155 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE H.A Eckhart & Associates, Inc. 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-Pd-Mci-Kansas City-Mci-Pdmt 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waarl - Arlington Center 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sivalls, Inc. Odessa 100 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, 2021, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.