Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation · Illinois

Mdw-Ground Ops

Chicago, IL · ~1,841 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
30.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mdw-Ground Ops runs at 685% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

Mdw-Ground Ops: 30.8 TCR = 685% of Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 3y 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 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 30.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 26.02 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.4

2022→2024

Mdw-Ground Ops injury rate improved

Mdw-Ground Ops's TCR fell 6.4 from 35.0 in 2022 to 28.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 35.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=35.0 · 2023=29.0 · 2024=28.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 30.8 · 685% of ind

  • DART 26.0 DART
  • RANK #58/58
  • PHOTO EWR - Ground Ops
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1,182 inj
  • SIZE ~1,841 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EWR - Ground Ops (0.9 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 30.8 TCR (685% 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: 2022=35 · 2023=29 · 2024=28.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Mdw-Ground Ops falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #58 safest of 58 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp employers in Illinois.

Mdw-Ground Ops (1,841 employees, TCR 30.8) 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Mdw-Ground Ops
Mdw-Ground Ops (1,841 employees, TCR 30.8) 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
2024 28.6 26.0 408 13 0
2023 29.0 26.6 398 15 0
2022 35.0 31.3 376 31 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 EWR - Ground Ops 30.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DTW-GROUND OPS 29.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bellingham Horizon 29.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BDL - Ground Ops 29.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE STIL 1,839 FTE
STATE-SIZE UTAS Rockford Plant 6 1,850 FTE
STATE-SIZE SwedishAmerican Hospital 1,855 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4701-V720P 1,860 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 Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockland Facility 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kemper Moving Systems 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR EWR - Ground Ops 30.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baxter Aibonito 1,840 FTE
NAT-SIZE Professional Janitorial Service of Houston 1,840 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 1,840 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albuquerque - ABQ 1,842 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. 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.