Airport baggage handling services · New Jersey

EWR Newark Liberty International Airport

Newark, NJ · ~48 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EWR Newark Liberty International Airport runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Airport baggage handling services workplace, earning a grade B.

EWR Newark Liberty International Airport: 2.5 TCR = 55% of Airport baggage handling services BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EWR Newark Liberty International Airport safety composite

EWR Newark Liberty International Airport scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−11.1

2016→2023

EWR Newark Liberty International Airport injury rate improved

EWR Newark Liberty International Airport's TCR fell 11.1 from 13.6 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.6 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Newark, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/43
  • PHOTO Prospect Airport Ser…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prospect Airport Services ORD T2/T5 (0.0 TCR gap)

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EWR Newark Liberty International Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EWR Newark Liberty International Airport averages 2.5 TCR (55% of the Airport baggage handling services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

EWR Newark Liberty International Airport TCR series: 2016=13.6 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.4 · BLS 4.5

Where EWR Newark Liberty International Airport falls in its industry

1,555 Airport baggage handling servi establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 43 Airport baggage handling servi employers in New Jersey.

EWR Newark Liberty International Airport (48 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 EWR Newark Liberty International Airport
EWR Newark Liberty International Airport (48 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

EWR Newark Liberty International Airport has fewer employees than the Airport baggage handling services 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
2023 2.4 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 13.6 13.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · NJ · Newark

1,555 Airport baggage handling services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 356 employers in Newark, NJ · 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 ORD T2/T5 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bombardier Transportation - Newark - EWR 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlantic Aviation - PWK 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAV SAV 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CUMBERLAND 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aqua NJ 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.R. Prisco, Inc. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hall Construction Co., Inc. 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR EWR 13,545 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR - Airport United Airlines Offices 13,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-EWR 11,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWRPW9829 EWR - NON AA PAX SER 4,772 FTE
NAT-TCR Reyes Group Ltd 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Enfield RHCC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ernst Concrete Corporate 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Benchmark Carbide LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Doyon, Limited - Fairbanks 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conns DC-Dallas 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE VSM Gourment Garage of West 66th Street 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patrick Industries, Inc. 48 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.