481111 Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation · Illinois

Contour Airlines - ORD

Chicago, IL · ~17 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Contour Airlines - ORD runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 481111 Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

Contour Airlines - ORD: 10.9 TCR = 243% of 481111 Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Contour Airlines - ORD safety composite

Contour Airlines - ORD scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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 10.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

−4.9

2023→2024

Contour Airlines - ORD injury rate improved

Contour Airlines - ORD's TCR fell 4.9 from 13.4 in 2023 to 8.5 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=8.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 243% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #52/58
  • PHOTO CLE-GROUND OPS
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CLE-GROUND OPS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Contour Airlines - ORD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Contour Airlines - ORD averages 10.9 TCR (243% of the 481111 Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

Contour Airlines - ORD TCR series: 2023=13.4 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Contour Airlines - ORD falls in its industry

1,568 481111 Scheduled Passenger Air establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 58 481111 Scheduled Passenger Air employers in Illinois.

Contour Airlines - ORD (17 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Contour Airlines - ORD
Contour Airlines - ORD (17 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Contour Airlines - ORD has fewer employees than the 481111 Scheduled Passenger Air Transport median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 8.5 0.0 2 0 0
2023 13.4 13.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · IL · Chicago

1,568 481111 Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR CLE-GROUND OPS 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIA-GROUND OPS 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCGEE AIR SERVICES PHX 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR EWR-NEWARK 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Neoga 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plymouth 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility - NWRWRF - Village of Fox Lake 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airoom Architect Holdings, LLC 17 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 Raley's 332-Fairfield 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nemasket Healthcare Center 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Boulder BD 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brickner's of Wausau 10.9 TCR

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.