Support Activities for Air Transportation · Pennsylvania

DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA · ~83 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Support Activities for Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh: 5.6 TCR = 124% of Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh safety composite

DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.8

2017→2020

DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh injury rate improved

DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh's TCR fell 8.8 from 11.3 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.3 · 2018=3.0 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Pittsburgh, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 124% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #24/49
  • PHOTO IAHCX9575 IAH - UPS …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IAHCX9575 IAH - UPS B19575 (0.0 TCR gap)

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DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh averages 5.6 TCR (124% 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 : PIT - Pittsburgh TCR series: 2017=11.3 · 2018=3 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh falls in its industry

1,555 Support Activities for Air Tra establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 49 Support Activities for Air Tra employers in Pennsylvania.

DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh (83 employees, TCR 5.6) 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 : PIT - Pittsburgh
DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh (83 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh has more employees than the Support Activities for Air Transportatio median and a higher 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 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2019 5.3 4.0 4 0 0
2018 3.0 2.0 3 0 0
2017 11.3 10.1 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · PA · Pittsburgh

1,555 Support Activities for Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,170 employers in Pittsburgh, PA · 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 IAHCX9575 IAH - UPS B19575 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATL078 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR LAXCMB216 LAX - B216 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BLV04 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE MD Basciani & Sons, Inc. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Hillis Group, pLLC 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Inc - Ford City 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR United States Steel COrporation 15,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh- Oakland 14,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 13,900 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh-Oakland 13,208 FTE
NAT-TCR Zorlu MFG Co, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR C R Metal Products, Inc 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hickory Foam Fabrication 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hancock Concrete Products, LLC- Courtland 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : FAR - Fargo 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Design Fabrication and Installation, Inc. 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE PDC Services, Inc. 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Coast Hospitals Inc 83 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.