Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation · Hawaii

KOA - Ground Ops

Kailua-Kona, HI · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KOA - Ground Ops runs at 317% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

KOA - Ground Ops: 14.3 TCR = 317% of Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KOA - Ground Ops safety composite

KOA - Ground Ops scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 33.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

KOA - Ground Ops: 0.0 → 33.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 33.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.35× in 2021

KOA - Ground Ops's TCR rose 33.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 33.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Kailua-Kona, HI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.3 · 317% of ind

  • DART 33.5 DART
  • RANK #30/39
  • PHOTO DTW-DETROIT
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DTW-DETROIT (0.0 TCR gap)

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KOA - Ground Ops in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KOA - Ground Ops averages 14.3 TCR (317% 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

KOA - Ground Ops TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=33.5 · BLS 4.5

Where KOA - Ground Ops falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Hawaii alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 39 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp employers in Hawaii.

KOA - Ground Ops (31 employees, TCR 14.3) 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 KOA - Ground Ops
KOA - Ground Ops (31 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

KOA - 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 33.5 33.5 11 0 0
2020 9.3 6.2 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · HI · Kailua-Kona

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,022 rated employers in Hawaii with headcount on file · 52 employers in Kailua-Kona, HI · 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 DTW-DETROIT 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BOS-BOSTON-TERMINAL 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCI-KANSAS CITY 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAK - Ground Ops 14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waikele Farms, Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE 13797 NATIVE FARMS LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Services : OM - Hawaii, USA 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Refuse Division - Kailua Collection Yard 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR HI-03 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0140 - KONA HI WHSE 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9095-KOA 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kohanaiki Club 296 FTE
NAT-TCR Edco, Inc. 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Darling Ingredients, Inc. 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Murrysville Store 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Waltek Inc. 14.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Millersburg 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Postec Inc. Corporate 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brunswick EM/Rental 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE SC - Exton 31 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. 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.