Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) · North Carolina

New Hanover County Airport Authority

Wilmington, NC · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Hanover County Airport Authority runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) workplace, earning a grade D.

New Hanover County Airport Authority: 7.9 TCR = 176% of Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Hanover County Airport Authority safety composite

New Hanover County Airport Authority 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.85 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%).

New Hanover County Airport Authority held a steady TCR band

New Hanover County Airport Authority's TCR held near 0.2 from 8.0 in 2023 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.0 · 2024=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Wilmington, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 176% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #43/52
  • PHOTO SPPAL Charlotte
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SPPAL Charlotte (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Hanover County Airport Authority in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Hanover County Airport Authority averages 7.9 TCR (176% of the Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) BLS benchmark).

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

New Hanover County Airport Authority TCR series: 2023=8 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 4.5

Where New Hanover County Airport Authority falls in its industry

1,555 Airport operators (e.g., civil establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 52 Airport operators (e.g., civil employers in North Carolina.

New Hanover County Airport Authority (49 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 New Hanover County Airport Authority
New Hanover County Airport Authority (49 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

New Hanover County Airport Authority has fewer employees than the Airport operators (e.g., civil, internat 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
2024 7.8 7.8 4 0 0
2023 8.0 6.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · NC · Wilmington

1,555 Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 360 employers in Wilmington, NC · 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 SPPAL Charlotte 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR IAHPW9643 IAH - QATAR PAX RAMP 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DENPW0716 DEN - ABOVE WING 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR EYW UNITED GROUND EXPRESS-EYW 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zackly Rite Farms 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Raleigh 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butterball Hatchery # 3 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matthews Operations Center 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center 6,890 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hanover Regional Medical Center 4,768 FTE
CITY-NEAR GE Hitachi Nuclear Americas 1,975 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hanover County Government 1,974 FTE
NAT-TCR LI Airpark 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lightspeed Routes LLC 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Colov - Loveland Co 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 089 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Olson Aluminum Castings 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holly Custom Print Company, LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stock Yards Florida 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palmer Hills Golf Course 49 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.