Scheduled Air Transportation · California

Delta Air Lines - SFO

San Francisco, CA · ~604 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Delta Air Lines - SFO runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Scheduled Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

Delta Air Lines - SFO: 8.9 TCR = 198% of Scheduled Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Delta Air Lines - SFO safety composite

Delta Air Lines - SFO scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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 - SFO: 5.3 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Delta Air Lines - SFO's TCR rose 4.1 from 5.3 in 2017 to 9.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · San Francisco, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 198% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #116/177
  • PHOTO BWI-TECHNICAL OPERAT…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 343 inj
  • SIZE ~604 FTE

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

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Delta Air Lines - SFO in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Delta Air Lines - SFO averages 8.9 TCR (198% 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 - SFO TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=7.3 · 2021=12.3 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=10.9 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Delta Air Lines - SFO falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #116 safest of 177 Scheduled Air Transportation employers in California.

Delta Air Lines - SFO (604 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 - SFO
Delta Air Lines - SFO (604 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Delta Air Lines - SFO 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 9.4 8.3 49 1 0
2023 10.9 9.1 57 3 1
2022 10.7 8.1 54 5 0
2021 12.3 11.0 50 5 0
2019 7.3 6.3 50 2 0
2018 6.7 4.5 45 2 0
2017 5.3 3.4 38 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · CA · San Francisco

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,144 employers in San Francisco, 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 BWI-TECHNICAL OPERATIONS 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BOS - Airport United Airlines Offices 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2073-SW-20730058-IF 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4795-PS-DAY-DAYTON-DAY-PSAA 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2905-29050002-4066 604 FTE
STATE-SIZE PSLQ Inc, DBA GreenBee 603 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pleasanton Site 605 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 605 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Francisco 18,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR DoorDash, Inc. 12,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Francisco Health 12,262 FTE
CITY-NEAR SFO - Airport United Airlines Offices 11,622 FTE
NAT-TCR Boyden 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dixieland 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Drainage Products Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Eldorado Country Club 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prisma Health Baptist Parkridge 604 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shintech Plaquemine 604 FTE
NAT-SIZE NC_Morrisville_101 Innovation Ave._0RDC1010 604 FTE
NAT-SIZE 540-FC004 604 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.