Airport baggage handling services · Massachusetts

BOS_AA

East Boston, MA · ~117 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BOS_AA runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Airport baggage handling services workplace, earning a grade C.

BOS_AA: 4.8 TCR = 106% of Airport baggage handling services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BOS_AA safety composite

BOS_AA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−2.4

2019→2020

BOS_AA injury rate improved

BOS_AA's TCR fell 2.4 from 6.0 in 2019 to 3.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.0 · 2020=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · East Boston, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #12/22
  • PHOTO Atlantic Aviation - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlantic Aviation - PNE (0.0 TCR gap)

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BOS_AA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BOS_AA averages 4.8 TCR (106% of the Airport baggage handling services BLS benchmark).

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

BOS_AA TCR series: 2019=6 · 2020=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where BOS_AA falls in its industry

1,555 Airport baggage handling servi establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 22 Airport baggage handling servi employers in Massachusetts.

BOS_AA (117 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 BOS_AA
BOS_AA (117 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

BOS_AA has more employees than the Airport baggage handling services median and a higher 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
2020 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2019 6.0 2.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · MA · East Boston

1,555 Airport baggage handling services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 59 employers in East Boston, MA · 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 Atlantic Aviation - PNE 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00001208 MCO - 208 ORLANDO INTL AIRPORT 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aviation Ground Handler Serv 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chapman Waterproofing Company 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newly Weds Foods Watertown Plant 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holt and Bugbee Co. 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE STMABerryGlobal 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-BOS-BOSTON-BOS-TRML 1,570 FTE
CITY-NEAR BOS-BOSTON-TERMINAL 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - BOS 1,276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA 511 FTE
NAT-TCR Meijer Store 220 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wigen Water Technologies 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Thrift Books Global, LLC (Baltimore, MD) 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hupp ToyotaLift Ankeny 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cameron 6500 Brittmoore 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE 11 - Middleburg 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Safety Marking Inc. 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public/Mental Health 117 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: 2020, 2019. 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.