Support Activities for Air Transportation · South Dakota

DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen

Aberdeen, SD · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Support Activities for Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade A.

DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen: 1.3 TCR = 28% of Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen safety composite

DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen held a steady TCR band

DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=5.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Aberdeen, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/11
  • PHOTO Swissport Ground Han…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swissport Ground Handling - LGA - LGA-GHA (0.0 TCR gap)

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DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen averages 1.3 TCR (28% of the Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 4.5

Where DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen falls in its industry

1,555 Support Activities for Air Tra establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 11 Support Activities for Air Tra employers in South Dakota.

DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen (21 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen
DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen (21 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen has fewer employees than the Support Activities for Air Transportatio median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · SD · Aberdeen

1,555 Support Activities for Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 86 employers in Aberdeen, SD · 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 Swissport Ground Handling - LGA - LGA-GHA 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Signature Flight Support-DSM247 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR IADCC0155 IAD - AF 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DGS Aviation Services : GUM - Guam 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE M007 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE M001 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kodiak Pork 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fox Run 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Angus, LLC dba DemKota Ranch Beef 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera St. Luke's Hospital 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aberdeen 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1520 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc, Ft. Collins Brewery 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Morrisville MV 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 483 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1352 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Progreso LMMM San Antonio#11, LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caylym Home AVE 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Day Habilitation Program 1 21 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: 2020, 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.