Support Activities for Air Transportation · Michigan

DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit

Detroit, MI · ~610 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Support Activities for Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade B.

DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit: 3.6 TCR = 79% of Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit safety composite

DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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 : DTW - Detroit: 2.3 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2020

DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit's TCR rose 2.2 from 2.3 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Detroit, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #13/33
  • PHOTO 4765-LAXCW9774
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 107 inj
  • SIZE ~610 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4765-LAXCW9774 (0.0 TCR gap)

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DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit averages 3.6 TCR (79% 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 : DTW - Detroit TCR series: 2017=2.3 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit falls in its industry

1,555 Support Activities for Air Tra establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 33 Support Activities for Air Tra employers in Michigan.

DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit (610 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 : DTW - Detroit
DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit (610 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit 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 4.5 4.2 33 3 0
2019 5.9 5.0 52 0 0
2018 1.5 1.2 10 0 0
2017 2.3 1.9 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · MI · Detroit

1,555 Support Activities for Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, MI · 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 4765-LAXCW9774 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4765-MDWPW9669 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DGS Aviation Services : DAL - Dallas 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4765-1618-9853 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Knape and Vogt Oak 610 FTE
STATE-SIZE SH Ludington Hospital - SHLH 610 FTE
STATE-SIZE BUILDING 2 609 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Bay Health Centers 609 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR Springs Media, LLC dba LifeSprings 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR REN047 Boston 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rancho Cucamonga 6th Street 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ARYZTA - Alsip 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amzl : Dph1 610 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alorica Business Solutions LLC- Niles 610 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Automotive Systems 610 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kimball Electronics Jasper 610 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.