Support Activities for Air Transportation · South Carolina

DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia

Columbia, SC · ~128 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Support Activities for Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade A.

DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia: 1.0 TCR = 22% of Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia safety composite

DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2020

DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #1/20
  • PHOTO TAC Air - DAL
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TAC Air - DAL (0.0 TCR gap)

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DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia averages 1.0 TCR (22% 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 : CAE - Columbia TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0.8 · BLS 4.5

Where DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia falls in its industry

1,555 Support Activities for Air Tra establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 20 Support Activities for Air Tra employers in South Carolina.

DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia (128 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 : CAE - Columbia
DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia (128 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia has more 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 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2018 1.5 0.8 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · SC · Columbia

1,555 Support Activities for Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 542 employers in Columbia, SC · 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 TAC Air - DAL 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bombardier Transportation - Orlando - MCO 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IAHCI0730 IAH - B18705 BLG 1 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TAC Air - LEX 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AME, INC. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ace Gaffney 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fibertex Nonwovens Inc. - GRE 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Innovative Construction Group, LLC-Florence, SC 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR Turner at AdvanSix Frankford PA 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Centrica Business Solutions - Vista Solar 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rubbermaid Distribution Center 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nelnet - Aurora 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : PNS - Pensacola 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Building Products CBPQ 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electrical Construction 128 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.

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

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