Scheduled Air Transportation · New Jersey

Delta Air Lines - EWR

Newark, NJ · ~251 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Delta Air Lines - EWR runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Scheduled Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade A.

Delta Air Lines - EWR: 2.1 TCR = 47% of Scheduled Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Delta Air Lines - EWR safety composite

Delta Air Lines - EWR scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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 - EWR: 1.5 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2024

Delta Air Lines - EWR's TCR rose 2.0 from 1.5 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Newark, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.1 · 47% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #3/24
  • PHOTO 76140006--SF UNITED …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~251 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 76140006--SF UNITED AIR GUARDS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Delta Air Lines - EWR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Delta Air Lines - EWR averages 2.1 TCR (47% 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 - EWR TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=1 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Delta Air Lines - EWR falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 24 Scheduled Air Transportation employers in New Jersey.

Delta Air Lines - EWR (251 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 - EWR
Delta Air Lines - EWR (251 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Delta Air Lines - EWR 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 3.5 3.0 7 0 0
2023 1.6 1.1 3 0 0
2022 2.3 1.7 3 1 0
2021 2.4 0.6 4 0 0
2019 1.0 0.3 2 1 0
2018 2.3 1.9 7 0 0
2017 2.5 1.6 8 0 0
2016 1.5 1.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · NJ · Newark

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 356 employers in Newark, NJ · 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 76140006--SF UNITED AIR GUARDS 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOU-FLIGHT OPS 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4795-PD-YUM-YUMA-PD 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CommuteAir - IAH Airport 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE DSM Nutritional Products - Belvidere NJ 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tris - Bldg. 2031 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE ShopRite of Hackensack 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1917 - Mount Laurel 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR EWR 13,545 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR - Airport United Airlines Offices 13,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-EWR 11,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWRPW9829 EWR - NON AA PAX SER 4,772 FTE
NAT-TCR Joe Pecheles Volkswagen Inc 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 4952 - Romeoville 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar Valley Services, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Konrady Plastics, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE MMC- Minocqua 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rottler Pest & Lawn Solutions 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Sound Behavioral Hospital 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DFO2 251 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.