Scheduled Air Transportation · Texas

Delta Air Lines - DFW

Dallas, TX · ~972 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Delta Air Lines - DFW runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Scheduled Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade A.

Delta Air Lines - DFW: 1.3 TCR = 28% of Scheduled Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Delta Air Lines - DFW safety composite

Delta Air Lines - DFW scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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 - DFW: 1.2 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2024

Delta Air Lines - DFW's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.2 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Dallas, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 28% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #18/146
  • PHOTO Reagan DCA Alaska
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~972 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reagan DCA Alaska (0.0 TCR gap)

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Delta Air Lines - DFW in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Delta Air Lines - DFW averages 1.3 TCR (28% 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 - DFW TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=1.4 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Delta Air Lines - DFW falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 146 Scheduled Air Transportation employers in Texas.

Delta Air Lines - DFW (972 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 - DFW
Delta Air Lines - DFW (972 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Delta Air Lines - DFW has more 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 1.6 1.4 17 0 0
2023 2.1 1.8 21 1 0
2022 1.1 0.5 10 2 0
2021 0.5 0.4 4 0 0
2019 1.4 1.3 13 1 0
2018 0.9 0.8 8 1 0
2016 1.2 1.1 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · TX · Dallas

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,187 employers in Dallas, TX · 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 Reagan DCA Alaska 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4795-AA-MKE-MILWAUKEE-MKE-TRML 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CC - CS S 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIA - Airport United Airlines Offices 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dashiell Corp/Dacon Corp 973 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fedex Supply Chain DFW1 973 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orion Marine Group 974 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corpus Christi Refinery (West) 970 FTE
CITY-NEAR AECOM DCS (US Operations) 15,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rexel USA, Inc 8,356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1 CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS 6,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR HDQ - Headquarters 5,764 FTE
NAT-TCR Magnolia Manor of St. Simons Retirement Center 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulf Breeze Home2 Suites 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tom Sanders Building Mart LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR McCarthy Tire Service #44 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SBD3 972 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hazleton Distribution Center 972 FTE
NAT-SIZE GNV 972 FTE
NAT-SIZE Discovery Cove (DCO) 972 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, 2016. 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.