Support Activities for Air Transportation · Indiana

DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend

South Bend, IN · ~52 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Support Activities for Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend: 7.6 TCR = 168% of Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend safety composite

DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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 : SBN - South Bend: 2.0 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2020

DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend's TCR rose 7.2 from 2.0 in 2017 to 9.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 168% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #19/23
  • PHOTO Swissport Ground Han…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

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

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DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend averages 7.6 TCR (168% 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 : SBN - South Bend TCR series: 2017=2 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=9.1 · BLS 4.5

Where DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend falls in its industry

1,555 Support Activities for Air Tra establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 23 Support Activities for Air Tra employers in Indiana.

DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend (52 employees, TCR 7.6) 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 : SBN - South Bend
DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend (52 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend has fewer 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 9.1 4.6 4 0 0
2019 12.8 8.5 6 0 0
2018 6.4 4.2 3 0 0
2017 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · IN · South Bend

1,555 Support Activities for Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 318 employers in South Bend, IN · 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 - MIA - MIA-GHA 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unifi Aviation Services : ORF - Norfolk 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ORD-SPUSA 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9123-MKE-PRIMEFLIGHT AVIATION SERVICES, INC. 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Cambridge City Facility 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2527-Windfall, IN (Monsanto Co.) 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE LeMaster Steel Erectors Inc. - Elkhart 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Oil Company Inc 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital South Bend 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph County 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fourwinds Casino South Bend 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell IN08 810 FTE
NAT-TCR DCF 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 368 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Oasis Health and Rehab Center 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Beaver Creek Chop House 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : AGS - Bush Field 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turner at Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Omaha NE 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Girl Houston 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Langdon Place of Exeter 52 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.