Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) · California

Airport Department

Santa Barbara, CA · ~83 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Airport Department runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) workplace, earning a grade B.

Airport Department: 2.8 TCR = 61% of Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Airport Department safety composite

Airport Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

Airport Department: 0.7 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Airport Department's TCR rose 4.1 from 0.7 in 2023 to 4.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Santa Barbara, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 61% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #36/166
  • PHOTO DGS Aviation Service…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DGS Aviation Services : BRD - Brainerd (0.0 TCR gap)

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Airport Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Airport Department averages 2.8 TCR (61% of the Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Airport Department TCR series: 2023=0.7 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Airport Department falls in its industry

1,555 Airport operators (e.g., civil establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 166 Airport operators (e.g., civil employers in California.

Airport Department (83 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Airport Department
Airport Department (83 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Airport Department has more employees than the Airport operators (e.g., civil, internat median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 4.8 1.4 5 2 0
2023 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · CA · Santa Barbara

1,555 Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 173 employers in Santa Barbara, CA · 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 DGS Aviation Services : BRD - Brainerd 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00001258 SDL - 258 SCOTTSDALE AIRPORT 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Signature Flight Support-DEN283 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunny Slope Trees 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Land Co. (Grangeville) 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Land Co. (Stratford Shop) 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Land Co. (Lemoore Shop) 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Barbara 10,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 3,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Barbara 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Green Santa Barbara 674 FTE
NAT-TCR Kalos Services 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0673 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Aristocrat Motors 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bulkley Trucking 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oakhaven Nursing Center 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intex Technologies 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advantage Manufacturing 83 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, 2023. 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.