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First Student
OSHA: 8 insp.Injuries: 3 yrLabor: 5 casesImmigration: no recordContracts: not listed
Across the sources on this site, First Student (Los Angeles, California) appears in 8 OSHA inspections, 5 concluded Wage and Hour Division cases and 3 years of injury summaries.
OSHA opened 8 inspections at First Student sites in California since 2016, issuing 2 citations. Current penalties total $185 (initially $560), $23 per inspection, below the national figure of $3,754. 1 inspection has at least one contested citation.
On its 2025 Form 300A summary the employer reported 446 employees and 11 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 4.9 per 100 full-time workers, about the same as the pooled rate for its industry (4.8; median establishment 3.3).
The Wage and Hour Division concluded 5 compliance actions involving First Student, recording $4,298 in back wages agreed to pay for 13 employees and assessing $7,150 in civil money penalties, under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Family and Medical Leave Act.
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date. Enforcement data through 14 Sep 2026.
Inspections by year
Compared with industry, state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 485 | California | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 0.3 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $23 | $1,839 | $3,729 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 13% | — | 27% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 13% | — | 59% | 56% |
Inspections with no citations count as "issued" with zero citations. Industry and state figures cover every inspection in the enforcement data since 2016, including employers without a page.
Citations by standard
| Standard | Subject | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 6151(C)(1) | — | 1 |
| 6151(E)(3) | — | 1 |
Standard numbers as the record labels them (29 CFR section; 5(a)(1) is the General Duty Clause). State-plan agencies such as Cal/OSHA cite their own codes, which appear here as recorded. Counted from the first twelve citations of each inspection.
Inspections
| Opened | Type | Scope | Citations | Current penalty | Status | Cited standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Mar 2026 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 1 Apr 2025 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 30 Apr 2021 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 25 Mar 2020 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 2 | $185 | Contested, final order | 6151(C)(1), 6151(E)(3) |
| 16 Aug 2019 | Unprogrammed related · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 12 Mar 2018 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 23 Jun 2017 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 28 Sep 2016 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed |
Status is per inspection: "Contested" when any citation has a contest date and "Final order" when every citation has a final order date; "Issued" otherwise. Violation types: S serious, W willful, R repeat. Each date links to the inspection detail on osha.gov.
Injuries OSHA Injury Tracking Application, Form 300A
Establishments submit their own Form 300A summaries; OSHA publishes the data as submitted and does not verify it. Rates are per 100 full-time workers (cases × 200,000 ÷ hours worked). Calendar years 2023–2025.
Injury rate vs industry
Total recordable case rate for 2025. The industry median is the median rate across establishments with at least 20,000 hours in NAICS 485 (quartiles 0.0–6.7); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.
By year
| Year | Establishments | Employees | Hours | Deaths | Days away | Restricted/transfer | Other | TRC rate | DART rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 30 | 2,936 | 3,374,502 | 0 | 64 | 42 | 25 | 7.8 | 6.3 |
| 2024 | 27 | 2,505 | 3,617,823 | 1 | 21 | 24 | 17 | 3.5 | 2.5 |
| 2025 | 3 | 446 | 446,259 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4.9 | 4.0 |
Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in California. Rates are blank where fewer than 2,000 hours were reported.
Labor Wage and Hour Division
The Wage and Hour Division publishes concluded compliance actions since fiscal year 2005; amounts are back wages the employer agreed to pay and civil money penalties assessed, as recorded at case conclusion. Data through 15 Jun 2026.
Back wages by year of case conclusion
Compared with state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 485 | California | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back wages per case | $860 | $21K | $15K | $13K |
| Employees per case | 2.6 | — | 10.8 | 13.1 |
| Back wages per employee found due | $331 | — | $1,389 | $993 |
Acts
| Act | Violations | Back wages |
|---|---|---|
| Fair Labor Standards Act | 14 | $4,298 |
| Family and Medical Leave Act | 4 | $0 |
Cases
| Findings period | Violations | Back wages agreed | Employees | Penalties | Acts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Jul 2021 – 21 Aug 2021 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 1 Feb 2020 – 17 Aug 2021 | 2 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 25 Feb 2021 – 1 Apr 2021 | 2 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 19 May 2010 – 18 May 2012 | 14 | $4,298 | 13 | $7,150 | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 15 Jun 2008 – 6 Jun 2010 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
Every case in the WHD file is concluded; the file does not record whether back wages were subsequently paid. Case IDs: 1949426, 1954392, 1940360, 1656203, 1576257.
Immigration Office of Foreign Labor Certification
Employer-specific case information was provided to OFLC by employers who submitted foreign labor certification applications. These are not employer responses to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' survey. Wage levels I–IV are as the employer stated on the application. LCA data through 30 Jun 2026; PERM through 30 Jun 2026.
No labor condition application from this employer in California appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026.
No PERM application from this employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Contracts USAspending.gov
USAspending recipient totals are federal contract obligations reported by awarding agencies for the latest twelve months; a recipient profile is a company-level record, not a per-state one. Retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Not among the top 3,903 federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending for the latest twelve months. Smaller awards can be searched on USAspending.gov.
Questions and answers
Has OSHA inspected First Student?
Yes. OSHA records 8 inspections at First Student sites in California since 2016, most recently opened 12 Mar 2026.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
2 citations with current penalties totalling $185. 1 inspection has a final order on every citation, 1 has a contested citation and 7 are recorded as issued. Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from First Student?
The Wage and Hour Division's concluded cases record $4,298 in back wages agreed to pay across 5 cases, for 13 employees.
Does First Student sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from First Student in California appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026. LCAs are filed by the employer's headquarters state, so a subsidiary or another state's entity may hold the filings.
Does First Student sponsor green cards (PERM)?
No PERM application from the employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Does First Student hold federal contracts?
It is not among the top federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending; smaller awards are not covered on this site.
Have there been union elections at First Student?
NLRB election results are not loaded on this site at present, so this page cannot say either way. The NLRB publishes recent election results and a case search on nlrb.gov.
Is this the same company as the one I am looking for?
Records are matched by normalised name and state. Subsidiaries, franchisees and other states' entities have their own records. See the methodology for how matching works.
Provenance
OSHA inspections and violations: US Department of Labor enforcement data, data.dol.gov, through 14 Sep 2026, inspections opened since 2016. Injury summaries: OSHA Injury Tracking Application Form 300A data, calendar years 2023, 2024, 2025. Wage and Hour compliance actions: data.dol.gov, concluded cases through 15 Jun 2026. LCA and PERM: OFLC disclosure files, fiscal years 2025–2026 through 30 Jun 2026. Federal contracts: USAspending recipient API, latest twelve months at 1 Oct 2026. NLRB election results are not loaded in this build. US government works, public domain; USAspending data is released under CC0. Page built 1 Oct 2026; errors in processing are corrected at the next build (corrections). Disputes about a record go to the agency that holds it.