Airport baggage handling services · Texas

IAH George Bush International Airport

Houston, TX · ~415 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IAH George Bush International Airport runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Airport baggage handling services workplace, earning a grade C.

IAH George Bush International Airport: 3.8 TCR = 84% of Airport baggage handling services BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IAH George Bush International Airport safety composite

IAH George Bush International Airport scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−1.1

2016→2023

IAH George Bush International Airport injury rate improved

IAH George Bush International Airport's TCR fell 1.1 from 5.1 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.1 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=5.0 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #49/126
  • PHOTO 4765-EWRPW9601
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 117 inj
  • SIZE ~415 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4765-EWRPW9601 (0.0 TCR gap)

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IAH George Bush International Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IAH George Bush International Airport averages 3.8 TCR (84% 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

IAH George Bush International Airport TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=5 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=4 · BLS 4.5

Where IAH George Bush International Airport falls in its industry

1,555 Airport baggage handling servi establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 126 Airport baggage handling servi employers in Texas.

IAH George Bush International Airport (415 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 IAH George Bush International Airport
IAH George Bush International Airport (415 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

IAH George Bush International Airport has more 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 4.0 2.2 26 0 0
2022 2.3 1.8 12 0 0
2021 3.9 1.8 11 0 0
2020 5.0 0.0 11 0 0
2019 3.6 1.8 14 0 0
2018 2.3 0.5 9 0 0
2017 4.1 1.1 15 0 0
2016 5.1 2.9 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · TX · Houston

1,555 Airport baggage handling services 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 4765-EWRPW9601 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Philadelphia International Airport 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross Aviation - White Plains 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlantic Aviation - OXC 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lampasas 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mount Franklin Foods 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE Texas AirSystems, LLC 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sygma San Antonio - 42802 415 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 Sodexo at Brandeis University 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Avon Old Farms School* 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Presbyterian Hospital - Charlo 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ShopRite of Morrell Plaza 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kalamazoo College 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waynesboro 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tenneco INC. 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Godiva Chocolatier 415 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.