Scheduled Air Transportation · Oregon

Delta Air Lines - PDX

Portland, OR · ~271 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 - PDX 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 - PDX: 6.8 TCR = 151% of Scheduled Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Delta Air Lines - PDX safety composite

Delta Air Lines - PDX scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

−4.3

2016→2024

Delta Air Lines - PDX injury rate improved

Delta Air Lines - PDX's TCR fell 4.3 from 10.0 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.0 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=10.0 · 2019=3.3 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Portland, OR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 151% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #10/25
  • PHOTO LAS-TECHNICAL OPERAT…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 136 inj
  • SIZE ~271 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAS-TECHNICAL OPERATIONS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Delta Air Lines - PDX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Delta Air Lines - PDX 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 - PDX TCR series: 2016=10 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=10 · 2019=3.3 · 2021=4 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Delta Air Lines - PDX 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 Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 25 Scheduled Air Transportation employers in Oregon.

Delta Air Lines - PDX (271 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 - PDX
Delta Air Lines - PDX (271 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 - PDX 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 5.7 4.3 21 0 0
2023 8.3 7.2 29 0 0
2022 5.7 4.7 17 1 0
2021 4.0 3.2 10 0 0
2019 3.3 2.9 6 2 0
2018 10.0 7.3 22 0 0
2017 7.5 6.5 15 1 0
2016 10.0 7.5 16 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · OR · Portland

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 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 LAS-TECHNICAL OPERATIONS 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frontier Airlines - Las Vegas Base 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFW - Airport United Airlines Offices 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 76040007--DFW AMER AIR WHLCH 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 701-00651 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interface Engineering, Inc 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro West Ambulance Vernonia 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro West Ambulance Clackamas 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Baptist Memorial Hospital 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rich Tree Service 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Industries Plastic Products LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Octavia Fire Protection District 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2197 - Westminster Orchard Parkway 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DPX7 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE UPM-Pharmaceuticals 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Star Electric Inc. 271 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.