Scheduled Air Transportation · Tennessee

Delta Air Lines - MEM

Memphis, TN · ~142 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Delta Air Lines - MEM runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Scheduled Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

Delta Air Lines - MEM: 6.8 TCR = 151% of Scheduled Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Delta Air Lines - MEM safety composite

Delta Air Lines - MEM scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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 - MEM: 7.1 → 10.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2024

Delta Air Lines - MEM's TCR rose 3.4 from 7.1 in 2016 to 10.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 151% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #14/31
  • PHOTO SW-20730026-IF DFW -…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SW-20730026-IF DFW - DALLAS, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Delta Air Lines - MEM in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Delta Air Lines - MEM averages 6.8 TCR (151% 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 - MEM TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=6.3 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Delta Air Lines - MEM falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 31 Scheduled Air Transportation employers in Tennessee.

Delta Air Lines - MEM (142 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 - MEM
Delta Air Lines - MEM (142 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Delta Air Lines - MEM 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 10.5 9.1 14 1 0
2023 4.3 4.3 6 0 0
2022 6.2 3.9 8 0 0
2021 6.7 5.7 5 2 0
2019 6.3 4.4 9 1 0
2018 7.2 5.9 11 0 0
2017 5.9 5.3 9 0 0
2016 7.1 7.1 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · TN · Memphis

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 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 SW-20730026-IF DFW - DALLAS, TX 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LIH - Ground Ops 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LAX - Airport United Airlines Offices 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 76040007--DFW AMER AIR WHLCH 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE LEB 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jack Daniel's Distillery 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spring City Site 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Extrusion 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Austin Air Systems, Limited 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Stucco of Arizona Inc 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DLT6 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Farm and Fleet of Belvidere 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mason St - Nature's Way 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic Services of Southwest Houston 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE 46 Albion Street 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE N&S Supply LLC 142 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.