Scheduled Air Transportation · North Carolina

Delta Air Lines - CLT

Charlotte, NC · ~85 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Delta Air Lines - CLT runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Scheduled Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade C.

Delta Air Lines - CLT: 3.6 TCR = 80% of Scheduled Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Delta Air Lines - CLT safety composite

Delta Air Lines - CLT scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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 - CLT: 1.2 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.49× in 2024

Delta Air Lines - CLT's TCR rose 5.3 from 1.2 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Charlotte, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #13/46
  • PHOTO 76080030--MEMPHIS FE…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 76080030--MEMPHIS FEDEX TRANSP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Delta Air Lines - CLT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Delta Air Lines - CLT averages 3.6 TCR (80% 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 - CLT TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=2.4 · 2021=8.7 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Delta Air Lines - CLT falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 46 Scheduled Air Transportation employers in North Carolina.

Delta Air Lines - CLT (85 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 - CLT
Delta Air Lines - CLT (85 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Delta Air Lines - CLT has fewer employees than the Scheduled Air Transportation median and a lower 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 6.4 5.4 6 0 0
2023 5.4 5.4 5 0 0
2022 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2021 8.7 5.8 6 0 0
2019 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2018 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2016 1.2 1.2 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · NC · Charlotte

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation 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 76080030--MEMPHIS FEDEX TRANSP 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BTV Burlington Airport 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6925-CLE 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 76180001--LOUISVILLE, KY UPS TRANSP 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aptus Group USA LLC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealand South 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE carl Rose Paving 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Romanoff Electric Residential - Charlotte 85 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 MMC- Beaver Dam 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Liebe Dallas LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Solar Gain Inc 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR La Tapatia Tortilleria, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Republic services of Harlingen 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE W .M .Dewey & Son, Inc. 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun Outdoors Sarasota 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coke Northeast - Elmira 85 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, 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.