Scheduled Air Transportation · Massachusetts

Delta Air Lines - BOS

Boston, MA · ~2,085 workers · 6 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

Delta Air Lines - BOS runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Scheduled Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

Delta Air Lines - BOS: 6.7 TCR = 150% of Scheduled Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Delta Air Lines - BOS safety composite

Delta Air Lines - BOS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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 6.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Delta Air Lines - BOS: 6.0 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

Delta Air Lines - BOS's TCR rose 0.6 from 6.0 in 2018 to 6.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Boston, MA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 150% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #7/15
  • PHOTO AUS - Airport United…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 807 inj
  • SIZE ~2,085 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AUS - Airport United Airlines Offices (0.0 TCR gap)

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Delta Air Lines - BOS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Delta Air Lines - BOS averages 6.7 TCR (150% of the Scheduled Air Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

Delta Air Lines - BOS TCR series: 2018=6 · 2019=6.8 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Delta Air Lines - BOS falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 15 Scheduled Air Transportation employers in Massachusetts.

Delta Air Lines - BOS (2,085 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Delta Air Lines - BOS
Delta Air Lines - BOS (2,085 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Delta Air Lines - BOS has more employees than the Scheduled Air Transportation 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 6.6 5.5 181 20 0
2023 7.4 6.5 195 12 0
2022 8.6 6.9 182 11 0
2021 5.1 4.5 58 7 0
2019 6.8 5.3 106 4 0
2018 6.0 5.0 85 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · MA · Boston

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 577 employers in 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 AUS - Airport United Airlines Offices 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2073-SW-20730236-IF 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GSO-GREENSBORO 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aeropuerto Rafael Hernandez 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sturdy Health Hospital 2,092 FTE
STATE-SIZE Massachusetts Eye and Ear 2,093 FTE
STATE-SIZE Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary 2,095 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Elizabeth's Medical Center 2,067 FTE
CITY-NEAR Massachusetts General Hospital 26,855 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham and Women's Hospital 19,183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham and Womens Hospital 19,004 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham & Women's Hospital 18,260 FTE
NAT-TCR Vision Ace Hardware, Labelle 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Wendy's-140 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Clinton Township 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Webster County Nursing Home 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Richland County Government 2,085 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Carmel West Hospital 2,085 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ocean Medical Center 2,084 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint Louis University Hospital 2,084 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, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.