Support Activities for Air Transportation · Kentucky

DGS Aviation Services : LEX - Lexington KY

Lexington Ky, KY · ~148 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 : LEX - Lexington KY 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 : LEX - Lexington KY: 1.0 TCR = 22% of Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DGS Aviation Services : LEX - Lexington KY safety composite

DGS Aviation Services : LEX - Lexington KY 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 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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 : LEX - Lexington KY held a steady TCR band

DGS Aviation Services : LEX - Lexington KY's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.7 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Lexington Ky, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #5/25
  • PHOTO 9215-HOU
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 9215-HOU (0.0 TCR gap)

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DGS Aviation Services : LEX - Lexington KY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DGS Aviation Services : LEX - Lexington KY 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 : LEX - Lexington KY TCR series: 2017=0.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=0.9 · BLS 4.5

Where DGS Aviation Services : LEX - Lexington KY 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 Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 25 Support Activities for Air Tra employers in Kentucky.

DGS Aviation Services : LEX - Lexington KY (148 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 : LEX - Lexington KY
DGS Aviation Services : LEX - Lexington KY (148 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 : LEX - Lexington KY 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2019 2.4 2.4 4 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · KY · Lexington Ky

1,555 Support Activities for Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 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 9215-HOU 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Signature Flight Support-SDL258 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DGS Aviation Services : PSP - Palm Springs 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DGS Corporate HQ : DGS Corporate HQ 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Russellville Solar Farm 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walker Construction & Materials LLC. 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novelis Inc. 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Piston Automotive 148 FTE
NAT-TCR Polk Power Station 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Irvine Residential Admin 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR H & N Printing & Graphics 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR WESCO Warrendale DC 7302 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : DEN - Denver 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1611 Peach St, Stes 150,255,375,445,90 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Louis 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cass Inc. Oakland 148 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.