Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation · Illinois

MDW - Flight Ops

Chicago, IL · ~1,020 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MDW - Flight Ops runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade A.

MDW - Flight Ops: 1.4 TCR = 31% of Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MDW - Flight Ops safety composite

MDW - Flight Ops scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

MDW - Flight Ops: 0.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.54× in 2021

MDW - Flight Ops's TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 31% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #13/58
  • PHOTO RAI MX PHL
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~1,020 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RAI MX PHL (0.0 TCR gap)

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MDW - Flight Ops in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MDW - Flight Ops averages 1.4 TCR (31% 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

MDW - Flight Ops TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.3 · BLS 4.5

Where MDW - Flight Ops falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 58 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp employers in Illinois.

MDW - Flight Ops (1,020 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 MDW - Flight Ops
MDW - Flight Ops (1,020 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

MDW - Flight Ops has more employees than the Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation median and a lower 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 2.3 2.1 4 9 0
2020 2.4 2.4 5 6 0
2019 0.9 0.4 6 0 0
2018 1.3 1.0 9 0 0
2017 1.4 1.4 8 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · IL · Chicago

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 RAI MX PHL 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATL - Flight Ops 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BWI-FLIGHT OPS 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4795-PS-PNS-PENSACOLA-PNS-PSAA 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Citywide 1,020 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint Anthony Hospital 1,018 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ace Hardware Corporate Offices 1,017 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4701-V680 1,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Unique Thrift Store-127kndy 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn Northpointe 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Martinsville Speedway 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Refresco 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parkway Imaging and Lab 1,020 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwestern Vermont Medical Center 1,020 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Water - HQO & CSO 1,020 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - PHX7 1,020 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.