488119 Other Airport Operations · California

Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3)

Los Angeles, CA · ~94 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3) runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 488119 Other Airport Operations workplace, earning a grade F.

Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3): 10.1 TCR = 224% of 488119 Other Airport Operations BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3) safety composite

Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3): 5.7 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2021

Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3)'s TCR rose 6.9 from 5.7 in 2018 to 12.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 224% of ind

  • DART 12.5 DART
  • RANK #119/166
  • PHOTO 4765-EWRPW9650
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4765-EWRPW9650 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3) averages 10.1 TCR (224% 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 (LAX3) TCR series: 2018=5.7 · 2019=12 · 2021=12.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3) falls in its industry

1,555 488119 Other Airport Operation establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #119 safest of 166 488119 Other Airport Operation employers in California.

Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3) (94 employees, TCR 10.1) 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 (LAX3)
Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3) (94 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Mercury Air Cargo (LAX3) 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 12.5 12.5 8 3 0
2019 12.0 7.6 11 0 0
2018 5.7 2.3 5 0 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 4765-EWRPW9650 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6957-JAN 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAV145 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATL-SPUSA 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MORALES FARM LABOR SERVICE 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robinson Enterprises, Inc 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Javier Martinez Contracting 94 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 McCook Yard 150 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MK Electric LLC 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4765-EWRPW9650 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Twin Falls 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE EM Operations, LLC 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tuxis Pond 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE MED 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evergreen Lifestyles Management - Solivita 94 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.