Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation · California

Lax Los Angeles Airport

Los Angeles, CA · ~1,155 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lax Los Angeles Airport runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

Lax Los Angeles Airport: 6.4 TCR = 141% of Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lax Los Angeles Airport safety composite

Lax Los Angeles Airport scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Lax Los Angeles Airport: 2.1 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2024

Lax Los Angeles Airport's TCR rose 2.1 from 2.1 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488111 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 141% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK P0
  • PHOTO SFO SAN FRANCISCO IN…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 688 inj
  • SIZE ~1,155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SFO SAN FRANCISCO INT L AIRPORT (1.8 TCR gap)

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Lax Los Angeles Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lax Los Angeles Airport averages 6.4 TCR (141% 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

Lax Los Angeles Airport TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=7 · 2021=6 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Lax Los Angeles Airport falls in its industry

13 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 4.2 3.7 16 1 0
2023 2.9 2.3 22 0 0
2022 4.3 1.3 29 0 0
2021 6.0 0.8 29 0 0
2020 7.0 1.0 49 2 0
2019 9.4 1.0 138 9 0
2018 10.2 2.8 187 0 0
2017 11.3 3.5 217 0 0
2016 2.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488111 · CA · Los Angeles

13 Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, CA · 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 SFO SAN FRANCISCO INT L AIRPORT 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR JFK JFK INT L AIRPORT 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR IAH HOUSTON AIRPORT 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR IAD WASHINGTON DULLES INT L AIRPORT 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 054529-LOS ANGELES NDC 1,155 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4701-169 1,155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodwill Southern California 1,155 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALAG - LAGUNA HUB 1,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR 1748 LKQ Prefered Auto Parts 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Eau Claire Energy Cooperative 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dun-lap Manufacturing Company 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dothan - 28 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - CLT9 1,155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ballad Health- Bristol Regional Medical Center 1,155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. - One CNN Center 1,155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kearney Facility 1,156 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 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.