Other Airport Operations · Tennessee

Cha United Ground Express-Cha

Chattanooga, TN · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cha United Ground Express-Cha runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Airport Operations workplace, earning a grade D.

Cha United Ground Express-Cha: 6.7 TCR = 149% of Other Airport Operations BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cha United Ground Express-Cha safety composite

Cha United Ground Express-Cha scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−13.4

2023→2024

Cha United Ground Express-Cha injury rate improved

Cha United Ground Express-Cha's TCR fell 13.4 from 13.4 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=13.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 149% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/35
  • PHOTO TREGO/DUGAN AVIATION…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TREGO/DUGAN AVIATION INC CHS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cha United Ground Express-Cha in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cha United Ground Express-Cha averages 6.7 TCR (149% of the Other Airport Operations BLS benchmark).

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

Cha United Ground Express-Cha TCR series: 2023=13.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Cha United Ground Express-Cha falls in its industry

1,555 Other Airport Operations establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 35 Other Airport Operations employers in Tennessee.

Cha United Ground Express-Cha (27 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Cha United Ground Express-Cha
Cha United Ground Express-Cha (27 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Cha United Ground Express-Cha has fewer employees than the Other Airport Operations 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 13.4 13.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · TN · Chattanooga

1,555 Other Airport Operations employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, TN · 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 TREGO/DUGAN AVIATION INC CHS 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABE UNITED GROUND EXPRESS-ABE 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unifi Aviation Services : SNA - Santa Ana 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisville Regional Airport Authority 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Montgomery County Power Station 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Millwrights & Consultants, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Innovative Millwright Service 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cumberland Valley Constructors, Inc. 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Milar - Lansing Airport 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR John T. Jones Construction Co 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tallahassee 10211 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cci-8050 LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 08 Lincoln, NE 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engbarth Directional Drilling 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Idgrn - Grangeville Center 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlas Trenchless, LLC 27 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.