Support Activities for Air Transportation · Florida

DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach

Destin-Fort Walton Beach, FL · ~67 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Support Activities for Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade C.

DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach: 5.0 TCR = 112% of Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach safety composite

DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.14 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 : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach: 5.7 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2020

DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach's TCR rose 0.5 from 5.7 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Destin-Fort Walton Beach, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 112% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #89/160
  • PHOTO Prospect Airport Ser…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prospect Airport Services PHL (0.0 TCR gap)

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DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach averages 5.0 TCR (112% 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 : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach TCR series: 2017=5.7 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=6.2 · BLS 4.5

Where DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach falls in its industry

1,555 Support Activities for Air Tra establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #89 safest of 160 Support Activities for Air Tra employers in Florida.

DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach (67 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach
DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach (67 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach 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 6.2 4.1 3 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2018 6.4 4.8 4 0 0
2017 5.7 5.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · FL · Destin-Fort Walton Beach

1,555 Support Activities for Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida 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 Prospect Airport Services PHL 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elliott Aviation of Des Moines 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-GHA 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00001355 MAF - 355 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pompano Beach Service Center 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-County Electric Cooperative 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Florida Constructors, LLC-Miami 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unifi Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach 39 FTE
NAT-TCR Alexandria Shop 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Spurlock Power Station 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Koenig 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Finleyville Giant Eagle 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Essex Industries 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fallbrook PUD 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Bell Mattress Co., LLC 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Marysville 67 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.