488119 Other Airport Operations · California

Mercury Air Cargo (AVION)

Los Angeles, CA · ~284 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercury Air Cargo (AVION) runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical 488119 Other Airport Operations workplace, earning a grade D.

Mercury Air Cargo (AVION): 8.2 TCR = 182% of 488119 Other Airport Operations BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercury Air Cargo (AVION) safety composite

Mercury Air Cargo (AVION) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Mercury Air Cargo (AVION) held a steady TCR band

Mercury Air Cargo (AVION)'s TCR held near 0.3 from 8.4 in 2018 to 8.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.4 · 2019=8.0 · 2021=8.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.2 · 182% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #105/166
  • PHOTO Swissport Ground Han…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~284 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swissport Ground Handling - RSW - RSW-GHA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercury Air Cargo (AVION) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercury Air Cargo (AVION) averages 8.2 TCR (182% of the 488119 Other Airport Operations BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Mercury Air Cargo (AVION) TCR series: 2018=8.4 · 2019=8 · 2021=8.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Mercury Air Cargo (AVION) falls in its industry

1,555 488119 Other Airport Operation establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #105 safest of 166 488119 Other Airport Operation employers in California.

Mercury Air Cargo (AVION) (284 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Mercury Air Cargo (AVION)
Mercury Air Cargo (AVION) (284 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Mercury Air Cargo (AVION) has more employees than the 488119 Other Airport Operations median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 8.1 7.7 14 7 0
2019 8.0 5.2 23 0 0
2018 8.4 3.4 21 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · CA · Los Angeles

1,555 488119 Other Airport Operations 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 Swissport Ground Handling - RSW - RSW-GHA 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BNA040 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SRQ-SAUSA 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swissport Ground Handling - SEA - SEA-GHA 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE TRI Pointe Homes San Ramon Division 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE Braga Fresh Foods 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quidel Corporation - Manufacturing 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE North America : Vista 284 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 Chapel Ridge Health & Rehab 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Plus - 0105 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sakuma Bros Processing 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Preferred Cartage 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE FSP Houston 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE BG 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlas PyroVision Entertainment Group, Inc. 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE Porpoise Pool & Patio 284 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, 2019, 2018. 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.