Airport baggage handling services · New York

JFK John F Kennedy International Airport

New York, NY · ~62 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

JFK John F Kennedy International Airport runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Airport baggage handling services workplace, earning a grade C.

JFK John F Kennedy International Airport: 3.9 TCR = 86% of Airport baggage handling services BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JFK John F Kennedy International Airport safety composite

JFK John F Kennedy International Airport scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

JFK John F Kennedy International Airport: 3.0 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.45× in 2022

JFK John F Kennedy International Airport's TCR rose 6.4 from 3.0 in 2016 to 9.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · New York, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #67/111
  • PHOTO GSP UNITED GROUND EX…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GSP UNITED GROUND EXPRESS-GSP (0.0 TCR gap)

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JFK John F Kennedy International Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JFK John F Kennedy International Airport averages 3.9 TCR (86% 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

JFK John F Kennedy International Airport TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=9.5 · BLS 4.5

Where JFK John F Kennedy International Airport falls in its industry

1,555 Airport baggage handling servi establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 111 Airport baggage handling servi employers in New York.

JFK John F Kennedy International Airport (62 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 JFK John F Kennedy International Airport
JFK John F Kennedy International Airport (62 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

JFK John F Kennedy 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
2022 9.5 9.5 1 0 0
2021 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2018 4.5 1.5 3 0 0
2017 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2016 3.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · NY · New York

1,555 Airport baggage handling services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 1,952 employers in New York, NY · 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 GSP UNITED GROUND EXPRESS-GSP 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6957-XNA 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AUS 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9215-AMA 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Care New York LLC.-Rochester 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Utilities - Massena 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kings County Waterproofing Corp 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE E-J Energy 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Grossman School of Medicine 16,280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital Corporation (MEM) 14,781 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Langone Hospitals 12,389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Sinai Medical Center 11,845 FTE
NAT-TCR Certified Slings, Inc. - Tampa 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Matthews of Pewaukee 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SHARP TRANSIT LLC Salisbury NC 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Milford Drivers 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Auffenberg Ford North 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brunswick Operating and Transmission Maintenance Center - 3951 & 3915 Community Rd. 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4174 Fort Worth Sheet Feeder 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE P9 - Fitchburg 62 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: 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.