Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation · Texas

HOU - Ground Ops

Houston, TX · ~838 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HOU - Ground Ops runs at 474% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

HOU - Ground Ops: 21.4 TCR = 474% of Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HOU - Ground Ops safety composite

HOU - Ground Ops scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 - Ground Ops: 18.1 → 26.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 30.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2021

HOU - Ground Ops's TCR rose 7.9 from 18.1 in 2016 to 26.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 30.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 21.4 · 474% of ind

  • DART 21.6 DART
  • RANK #137/146
  • PHOTO 4795-PD-GSP-GREENVIL…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 851 inj
  • SIZE ~838 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4795-PD-GSP-GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-PD (0.0 TCR gap)

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HOU - Ground Ops in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HOU - Ground Ops averages 21.4 TCR (474% 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 - Ground Ops TCR series: 2016=18.1 · 2017=30.2 · 2018=22.7 · 2019=17.6 · 2020=13.6 · 2021=26 · BLS 4.5

Where HOU - Ground Ops falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #137 safest of 146 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp employers in Texas.

HOU - Ground Ops (838 employees, TCR 21.4) 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 - Ground Ops
HOU - Ground Ops (838 employees, TCR 21.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

HOU - Ground Ops has more employees than the Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation median and a higher 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 26.0 21.6 163 19 0
2020 13.6 12.1 86 9 0
2019 17.6 13.3 130 21 0
2018 22.7 18.9 183 12 0
2017 30.2 24.5 159 15 0
2016 18.1 15.5 130 6 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 4795-PD-GSP-GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-PD 21.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MSY-GROUND OPS 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TUS-GROUND OPS 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawaiian Airlines - OGG 21.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Exxon-Baytown 838 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ensco (Valaris) Office and Rigs 837 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraft Heinz Garland Plant 839 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prestige Home Care Services 840 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 The Springs of Vernon Hills 21.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bickford of West Lansing 21.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Police - Animal Control 21.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Surgery Center of Des Moines East 21.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Goshen, IN 838 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evonik Corp- Theodore, AL 838 FTE
NAT-SIZE TN-Chattanooga Call Center 838 FTE
NAT-SIZE COLSA Corporation - Corporate 838 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.