Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation · Texas

HRL - Ground Ops

Harlingen, TX · ~42 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HRL - Ground Ops runs at 396% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

HRL - Ground Ops: 17.8 TCR = 396% of Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HRL - Ground Ops safety composite

HRL - Ground Ops scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 22.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

HRL - Ground Ops: 19.0 → 22.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 30.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2021

HRL - Ground Ops's TCR rose 3.0 from 19.0 in 2016 to 22.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 30.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Harlingen, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.8 · 396% of ind

  • DART 22.0 DART
  • RANK #134/146
  • PHOTO LAS - Ground Ops
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAS - Ground Ops (0.0 TCR gap)

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HRL - Ground Ops in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HRL - Ground Ops averages 17.8 TCR (396% 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

HRL - Ground Ops TCR series: 2016=19 · 2017=19 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=30.8 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=22 · BLS 4.5

Where HRL - Ground Ops falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #134 safest of 146 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp employers in Texas.

HRL - Ground Ops (42 employees, TCR 17.8) 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 HRL - Ground Ops
HRL - Ground Ops (42 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

HRL - Ground Ops has fewer 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 22.0 22.0 7 1 0
2020 9.2 9.2 3 0 0
2019 30.8 25.6 11 1 0
2018 6.9 4.6 2 1 0
2017 19.0 6.3 2 4 0
2016 19.0 13.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · TX · Harlingen

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 133 employers in Harlingen, 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 LAS - Ground Ops 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MKE - Ground Ops 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR McGee Air Services - SEA 17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GEG-GROUND OPS 17.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Headquarters Southeast 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Littlefield Feedyard 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXAS BEEF PRODUCERS 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3-H Dairy LLC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-838 1,389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harlingen Medical Center 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX_Harlingen_2921 S. Expswy 83_TCIP2T20 553 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 595 354 FTE
NAT-TCR Caputo & Guest Mushrooms 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00314 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington Health and Rehabiliation Center 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rack & Maintenance Source LLC 17.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE VNA at HCS Peterborough 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE 103517 - Jett - WI281 Settling Tank Rehab 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Famous Dave's - Woodbury 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Home City Ice Company - Mack - 301 42 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.