Passenger air transportation, scheduled · Texas

Mesa Airlines-IAH

Name: Mesa Airlines-IAH Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Houston, TX · ~1,082 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.7
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Mesa Airlines-IAH runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Passenger air transportation, scheduled workplace, earning a grade B.

Mesa Airlines-IAH: 2.7 TCR = 60% of Passenger air transportation, scheduled BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mesa Airlines-IAH safety composite

Mesa Airlines-IAH scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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).

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

Mesa Airlines-IAH held a steady TCR band

Mesa Airlines-IAH's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.8 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.8 · 2018=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 60% of ind

DART 1.8 DART
RANK #41/146
PHOTO LAS - Flight Ops
BOOK 2y book
INJ 54 inj
SIZE ~1,082 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAS - Flight Ops (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.7
LAS - Flight O

2.7
4795-PD-AVL-AS

2.7
1004-52 GoJet

2.7
JAL-DFW

2.7

What this shows Mesa Airlines-IAH averages 2.7 TCR (60% of the Passenger air transportation, scheduled BLS benchmark).

Mesa Airlines-IAH TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Mesa Airlines-IAH falls in its industry

1,568 Passenger air transportation, establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 146 Passenger air transportation, employers in Texas.

Mesa Airlines-IAH (1,082 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Mesa Airlines-IAH has more employees than the Passenger air transportation, scheduled 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
2018	2.6	1.8	28	4	0
2017	2.8	2.7	26	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · TX · Houston

1,568 Passenger air transportation, scheduled employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	LAS - Flight Ops	LAS VEGAS, NV	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	4795-PD-AVL-ASHEVILLE-AVL-PDMT	FLETCHER, NC	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1004-52 GoJet DTW MX	ROMULUS, MI	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	JAL-DFW	DFW AIRPORT, TX	2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	6839-2	PLANO	1,082 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital	SAN ANTONIO	1,084 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine	GRAPEVINE	1,080 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Toshiba International Corporation	HOUSTON	1,085 FTE
CITY-NEAR	IAH IAH	Houston	11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR	IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices	Houston	10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6925-IAH	Houston	9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center	Houston	8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR	Neutrogena	Los Angeles, CA	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ryder Whirlpool Plainfield	Plainfield, IN	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bear Construction, Inc.	Canonsburg, PA	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5221	Atlanta, GA	2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Lilly Del Carbe Inc - Carolina	Carolina, PR	1,082 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - ABE2	Breinigsville, PA	1,082 FTE
NAT-SIZE	BAE Systems Electronic Systems PTP	Hudson, NH	1,082 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mountain Home, AR	Mountain Home, AR	1,081 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.