Airport baggage handling services · North Carolina

CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport

Charlotte, NC · ~140 workers · 8 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

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

CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport: 4.8 TCR = 106% of Airport baggage handling services BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport safety composite

CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport: 1.3 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2023

CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport's TCR rose 1.0 from 1.3 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #26/52
  • PHOTO Aviation Ground Hand…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aviation Ground Handler Serv (0.0 TCR gap)

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CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport 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

CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=9 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=2.3 · BLS 4.5

Where CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport 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 North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 52 Airport baggage handling servi employers in North Carolina.

CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport (140 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 CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport
CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport (140 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

CLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport 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
2023 2.3 1.7 4 0 0
2022 7.2 2.1 10 0 0
2021 9.0 2.7 10 0 0
2020 4.6 2.3 4 0 0
2019 7.4 3.3 9 0 0
2018 6.5 2.2 6 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · NC · Charlotte

1,555 Airport baggage handling services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 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 Aviation Ground Handler Serv 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unifi Aviation Services : ORD - Chicago 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9123-ATL-PRIMEFLIGHT AVIATION SERVICES, INC. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BOS_AA 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bernhard MCC L.L.C. RNC 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Carolina Air Conditioning 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6921-05000 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATEX Technologies Inc 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Farmer Boy Ag Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Alliance 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR RWH Construction Services 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Acromil LLC -City of Industry 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fiesta # 08 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE AdventHealth Care Center Apopka North 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lorton Va (Newington) 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE IMC Hanover 140 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.