Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation · Illinois

MDW - Ground Ops

Chicago, IL · ~1,259 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MDW - Ground Ops runs at 540% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

MDW - Ground Ops: 24.3 TCR = 540% of Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MDW - Ground Ops safety composite

MDW - Ground Ops scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 28.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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 - Ground Ops: 25.7 → 30.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 30.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2021

MDW - Ground Ops's TCR rose 4.6 from 25.7 in 2016 to 30.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 24.3 · 540% of ind

  • DART 28.4 DART
  • RANK #57/58
  • PHOTO ISP-GROUND OPS
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1,477 inj
  • SIZE ~1,259 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ISP-GROUND OPS (0.1 TCR gap)

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MDW - Ground Ops in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MDW - Ground Ops averages 24.3 TCR (540% 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 - Ground Ops TCR series: 2016=25.7 · 2017=27.4 · 2018=27.6 · 2019=20.4 · 2020=14.4 · 2021=30.3 · BLS 4.5

Where MDW - Ground Ops falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #57 safest of 58 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp employers in Illinois.

MDW - Ground Ops (1,259 employees, TCR 24.3) 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 MDW - Ground Ops
MDW - Ground Ops (1,259 employees, TCR 24.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

MDW - Ground Ops has more 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 30.3 28.4 279 9 0
2020 14.4 12.7 125 13 0
2019 20.4 18.2 241 9 0
2018 27.6 23.5 321 15 0
2017 27.4 23.4 236 8 0
2016 25.7 21.9 275 15 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 ISP-GROUND OPS 24.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ONT-GROUND OPS 24.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4795-EA-JAN-JACKSON-EAGLE ACS 24.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PHL - Ground Ops 24.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wahl Clipper Corporation 1,260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawson Products-Corporate 1,256 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joliet Junior College 1,256 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advocate South Suburban Hospital 1,256 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 St Andre Health Care 24.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZNRC 24.3 TCR
NAT-TCR OCSD Inmate Services Division - Food Services 24.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Learning Tree Inc 24.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northwest Local School District 1,259 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3801 - Midlothian DC 1,259 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0558 - Albany DC 1,259 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honda Aircraft Company, LLC 1,259 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.