Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation · Texas

HOU - Flight Ops

Houston, TX · ~851 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HOU - Flight Ops runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade A.

HOU - Flight Ops: 2.1 TCR = 47% of Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HOU - Flight Ops safety composite

HOU - Flight Ops scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.27 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%).

Rising injury rate

HOU - Flight Ops: 0.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.02× in 2021

HOU - Flight Ops's TCR rose 4.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.1 · 47% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #31/146
  • PHOTO Spirit Airlines - DFW
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~851 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spirit Airlines - DFW (0.0 TCR gap)

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HOU - Flight Ops in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HOU - Flight Ops averages 2.1 TCR (47% of the Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

HOU - Flight Ops TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=2 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where HOU - Flight Ops falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 146 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp employers in Texas.

HOU - Flight Ops (851 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate HOU - Flight Ops
HOU - Flight Ops (851 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

HOU - Flight Ops has more employees than the Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2021 4.5 4.3 12 8 0
2020 1.9 1.4 1 6 0
2019 1.6 1.6 7 2 0
2018 2.0 1.4 10 0 0
2017 2.7 2.5 13 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · TX · Houston

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 Spirit Airlines - DFW 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 76210007--HOU UNITED/CONT LOBBY AGENT 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 76840002--FLL JETBLUE WHLCH 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOU-FLIGHT OPS 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE DLLSTXRI 851 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters SP 851 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Westover Hills 851 FTE
STATE-SIZE Texas Vista Medical Center 851 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Machine Shop (A Unit of IDEX Corporation) 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sal Electric Co., Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 7601-Enphg-Loyola University 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Piggly Wiggly 80 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Patterson Companies, Inc 851 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bodine Aluminum, Inc. - Troy 851 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Elizabeth Healthcare Ft Thomas 851 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omni Hotels & Resorts 851 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: 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.