Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation · Illinois

ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices

Chicago, IL · ~8,609 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices: 7.0 TCR = 155% of Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices safety composite

ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

−3.0

2016→2018

ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices injury rate improved

ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices's TCR fell 3.0 from 8.9 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.9 · 2017=6.0 · 2018=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 155% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #42/58
  • PHOTO 4795-EA-LEX-LEXINGTO…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1,560 inj
  • SIZE ~8,609 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4795-EA-LEX-LEXINGTON-EAGLE ACS (0.0 TCR gap)

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ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices averages 7.0 TCR (155% of the Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices TCR series: 2016=8.9 · 2017=6 · 2018=6 · BLS 4.5

Where ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 58 Scheduled Passenger Air Transp employers in Illinois.

ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices (8,609 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices
ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices (8,609 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices has more employees than the Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation 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 6.0 5.5 523 6 1
2017 6.0 5.4 492 16 0
2016 8.9 7.6 545 23 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · IL · Chicago

1,568 Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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-LEX-LEXINGTON-EAGLE ACS 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JFK Kennedy Airport 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2073-SW-20730011-IF 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATL - Maintenance 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL 8,566 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6925-ORD 8,435 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILHOD - CHICAGO AREA CONSOLIDATION HUB 8,102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Normal Plant - 100 Rivian Motorway 7,793 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR 0180 - Lincoln Village, Oh 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0267 - North Richland Hills, T 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Samarkand 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mr. Dell Foods, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans 8,624 FTE
NAT-SIZE Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 8,650 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, 2016. 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.