OSHA has inspected First Student, Inc. 7 times in Pennsylvania since 2008.
The latest one began on Sep 28, 2023 on a referral, in Swiftwater.
Those inspections ended with 10 citation items: 4 serious and 6 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $36,293 and now stand at $26,298, 28% lower after settlements or reviews.
Exit routes comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.37.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for transportation and warehousing employers since 2015 is $2,412, and First Student, Inc. averages $11,532 (2 cited inspections).
First Student, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Pennsylvania · latest 90 days of OSHA records
295employers cited
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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Swiftwater site logged 2 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 200 workers: 1.2 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.2 for its industry. Those cases cost 103 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
First Student Inc - Pocono Mountain
Swiftwater · 2025
200
2
2
1.2
3.2
12724 Pocono Mt East
Swiftwater · 2025
236
7
4
5.0
3.2
First Student
Allentown · 2024
171
1
1
0.1
3.2
12624 - Hempfield
Greensburg · 2023
89
2
0
4.7
3.2
11968 Bucks County (a)
Doylestown · 2023
48
2
0
6.1
3.2
20534 Allentown
Allentown · 2023
185
4
3
12.8
3.2
11968 Bucks county
Doylestown · 2022
53
1
1
0.0
3.2
12624 Hempfield
Greensburg · 2021
78
0
0
0.0
3.2
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
Sep 27, 2023, Swiftwater: Hospitalization · third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns · multiple body parts, unspecified
An employee was emptying propane from a school bus to perform maintenance when the propane caught fire. The employee sustained first, second- and third-degree burns throughout 40% of their body.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(b) Implementation—(1) What do I need to do to complete the OSHA 300 Log? You must enter information about your business at the top of the OSHA 300 Log, enter a one or two line description for each recordable injury or illness, and summarize this information on the OSHA 300-A at the end of the year.
(4) Energy control procedure. (i) Procedures shall be developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees are engaged in the activities covered by this section.
29 CFR 1910.303 · Electrical equipment, general requirements
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.
