Scheduled Air Transportation · California

Delta Air Lines - SAN

San Diego, CA · ~118 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Delta Air Lines - SAN runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Scheduled Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade C.

Delta Air Lines - SAN: 4.3 TCR = 97% of Scheduled Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Delta Air Lines - SAN safety composite

Delta Air Lines - SAN scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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 - SAN: 3.7 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2024

Delta Air Lines - SAN's TCR rose 1.8 from 3.7 in 2018 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · San Diego, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 97% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #54/177
  • PHOTO 4795-EA-LEX-LEXINGTO…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4795-EA-LEX-LEXINGTON-LEX-TRML (0.0 TCR gap)

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Delta Air Lines - SAN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Delta Air Lines - SAN averages 4.3 TCR (97% 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 - SAN TCR series: 2018=3.7 · 2019=4.4 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Delta Air Lines - SAN falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #54 safest of 177 Scheduled Air Transportation employers in California.

Delta Air Lines - SAN (118 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 - SAN
Delta Air Lines - SAN (118 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Delta Air Lines - SAN 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 5.5 4.7 7 0 0
2023 3.8 3.8 4 1 0
2022 2.3 2.3 3 0 0
2021 6.5 5.4 4 2 0
2019 4.4 3.5 5 0 0
2018 3.7 3.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · CA · San Diego

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 4795-EA-LEX-LEXINGTON-LEX-TRML 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PVD-PROVIDENCE 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SFB 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Air Lines - BOI 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prestige Farming inc 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cipponeri Orchards 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHC Facilities, Inc. dba The Plug DTLA 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plug Connection - Lodi 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR KW Container - Allentown 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ocean Reef Club 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Givaudan Fragrances Corporation- Towaco 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Boulevard Temple Care Center 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delta Air Lines - IAH 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerber Plumbing Fixtures, LLC 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE GREER 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Samsung SDS America, Inc. - Ft. Worth 118 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. 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.