Scheduled Air Transportation · Minnesota

Delta Air Lines - MSP

Minneapolis, MN · ~5,602 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 - MSP 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 - MSP: 5.1 TCR = 114% of Scheduled Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Delta Air Lines - MSP safety composite

Delta Air Lines - MSP scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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 - MSP: 4.9 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

Delta Air Lines - MSP's TCR rose 0.7 from 4.9 in 2017 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Minneapolis, MN ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 114% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #20/31
  • PHOTO Delta Air Lines - JFK
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 1,891 inj
  • SIZE ~5,602 FTE

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

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Delta Air Lines - MSP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Delta Air Lines - MSP 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 - MSP TCR series: 2017=4.9 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=5.3 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Delta Air Lines - MSP 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 Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 31 Scheduled Air Transportation employers in Minnesota.

Delta Air Lines - MSP (5,602 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 02,0004,0006,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Delta Air Lines - MSP
Delta Air Lines - MSP (5,602 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 - MSP 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 5.6 4.5 346 14 0
2023 5.8 5.0 323 12 0
2022 4.6 3.5 270 9 0
2021 4.7 4.2 170 20 0
2019 5.3 3.4 265 28 0
2018 4.9 3.5 257 21 0
2017 4.9 3.8 260 19 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · MN · Minneapolis

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 1,321 employers in Minneapolis, MN · 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 - JFK 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Air Lines - DEN 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10 AIR CANADA 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4795-AA-PIT-PITTSBURGH-PIT-TRML 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE YMCA in Lino Lakes 5,690 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boston Scientific Corporation 5,324 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1010 REGIONS HOSPITAL 5,313 FTE
STATE-SIZE medtronic mounds view campus 5,300 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Twin Cities 22,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN950 MN TELECOMMUTER 12,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0501 - City Center 8,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hennepin County Medical Center 7,030 FTE
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines - JFK 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR OLG St. Martin Hospital 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dfa Distributing West - City of Industry Ca-North 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abington Memorial Hospital 5,610 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seattle Base Alaska 5,612 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayo Clinic Arizona (Hospital) 5,588 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.