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

City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport

Chicago, IL · ~271 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport safety composite

City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−2.5

2019→2023

City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport injury rate improved

City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport's TCR fell 2.5 from 4.8 in 2019 to 2.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.8 · 2020=10.4 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #38/61
  • PHOTO DFWCI2520 DFW - B2520
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~271 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFWCI2520 DFW - B2520 (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport averages 5.7 TCR (126% 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

City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport TCR series: 2019=4.8 · 2020=10.4 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=2.3 · BLS 4.5

Where City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport falls in its industry

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

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 61 Airport operators (e.g., civil employers in Illinois.

City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport (271 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport
City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport (271 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

City of Chicago - Chicago Department of Aviation - Midway International Airport has more employees than the Airport operators (e.g., civil, internat 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
2023 2.3 1.9 6 0 0
2022 5.2 4.5 16 0 0
2020 10.4 6.7 22 0 0
2019 4.8 1.4 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · IL · Chicago

1,555 Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 DFWCI2520 DFW - B2520 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unifi Aviation Services : TRI - Tri-Cities 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFW026 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR HDN Gunnison County Airport 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bedford Park Thermo 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winpak Portion Packaging 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foodservice : BEDFORD PARK THERMO 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Muleshoe Area Medical Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 3B Enterprises, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenhurst Nursing Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Highlandview Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #07 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE Noven Pharmaceuticals Inc. 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walden Sped 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE Attwood Lowell 271 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: 2023, 2022, 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.