Scheduled Air Transportation · California

Delta Air Lines - LAX

Los Angeles, CA · ~4,257 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Delta Air Lines - LAX runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Scheduled Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade C.

Delta Air Lines - LAX: 5.1 TCR = 114% of Scheduled Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Delta Air Lines - LAX safety composite

Delta Air Lines - LAX scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−1.8

2017→2024

Delta Air Lines - LAX injury rate improved

Delta Air Lines - LAX's TCR fell 1.8 from 6.6 in 2017 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.6 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=4.6 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 114% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #64/177
  • PHOTO Delta Air Lines - SAV
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 1,426 inj
  • SIZE ~4,257 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Delta Air Lines - SAV (0.0 TCR gap)

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Delta Air Lines - LAX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Delta Air Lines - LAX averages 5.1 TCR (114% 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 - LAX TCR series: 2017=6.6 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=4.6 · 2021=5 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=5 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Delta Air Lines - LAX falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 177 Scheduled Air Transportation employers in California.

Delta Air Lines - LAX (4,257 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Delta Air Lines - LAX
Delta Air Lines - LAX (4,257 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Delta Air Lines - LAX 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 4.9 4.1 204 15 0
2023 5.0 4.3 197 14 0
2022 5.4 3.6 221 16 0
2021 5.0 4.6 161 12 0
2019 4.6 4.2 205 10 0
2018 4.2 3.4 183 8 0
2017 6.6 5.9 255 12 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · CA · Los Angeles

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, CA · 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 Delta Air Lines - SAV 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ontario Alaska 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4795-PD-EWN-NEW BERN-PD 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Air Lines - JFK 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - FAT1 4,275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Media Networks 4,278 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Sunnyvale Campus (1066) 4,224 FTE
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : LGB3 4,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines - SAV 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ISC-Cargo Clean LLC 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kelly Box & Packaging 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DFL5 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fort Wayne Assembly 4,257 FTE
NAT-SIZE MD-03 4,250 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - CLT4 4,267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Resorts World 4,268 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.