Passenger air transportation, scheduled · Kentucky

Mesa Airlines-SDF

Louisville, KY · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mesa Airlines-SDF runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Passenger air transportation, scheduled workplace, earning a grade D.

Mesa Airlines-SDF: 8.3 TCR = 184% of Passenger air transportation, scheduled BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mesa Airlines-SDF safety composite

Mesa Airlines-SDF scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−0.8

2017→2018

Mesa Airlines-SDF injury rate improved

Mesa Airlines-SDF's TCR fell 0.8 from 8.7 in 2017 to 7.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.7 · 2018=7.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.3 · 184% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #16/25
  • PHOTO 4795-EA-CVG-CINCINAT…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4795-EA-CVG-CINCINATTI-CVG-TRML (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mesa Airlines-SDF in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mesa Airlines-SDF averages 8.3 TCR (184% of the Passenger air transportation, scheduled BLS benchmark).

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

Mesa Airlines-SDF TCR series: 2017=8.7 · 2018=7.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Mesa Airlines-SDF falls in its industry

1,568 Passenger air transportation, establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 25 Passenger air transportation, employers in Kentucky.

Mesa Airlines-SDF (50 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Mesa Airlines-SDF
Mesa Airlines-SDF (50 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Mesa Airlines-SDF has fewer employees than the Passenger air transportation, scheduled 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
2018 7.9 4.0 2 4 0
2017 8.7 8.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · KY · Louisville

1,568 Passenger air transportation, scheduled employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 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 4795-EA-CVG-CINCINATTI-CVG-TRML 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MDW - Maintenance 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boise Horizon 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4795-AA-BWI-BALTIMORE-BWI-TRML 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cumberland Valley Electric 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heimbrock, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE E-Z Construction Company, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE STANDAFER BUILDERS INC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Underground Services 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Androscoggin Learning & Transition Center 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 8350 Lyra Drive,LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wellington at NRH 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE HoneywellFL24 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Florida 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE TN.FRANK.7 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Horn Oconomowoc 50 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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