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

ORD-SPUSA

Chicago, IL · ~320 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ORD-SPUSA runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) workplace, earning a grade D.

ORD-SPUSA: 7.5 TCR = 168% of Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ORD-SPUSA safety composite

ORD-SPUSA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−1.0

2016→2022

ORD-SPUSA injury rate improved

ORD-SPUSA's TCR fell 1.0 from 7.3 in 2016 to 6.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.3 · 2017=5.0 · 2018=11.9 · 2019=11.2 · 2020=3.7 · 2022=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #50/61
  • PHOTO Swissport Ground Han…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 109 inj
  • SIZE ~320 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swissport Ground Handling - MIA - MIA-GHA (0.0 TCR gap)

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ORD-SPUSA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ORD-SPUSA averages 7.5 TCR (168% 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

ORD-SPUSA TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=5 · 2018=11.9 · 2019=11.2 · 2020=3.7 · 2022=6.2 · BLS 4.5

Where ORD-SPUSA falls in its industry

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

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 61 Airport operators (e.g., civil employers in Illinois.

ORD-SPUSA (320 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 ORD-SPUSA
ORD-SPUSA (320 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

ORD-SPUSA has more 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
2022 6.2 5.6 10 0 0
2020 3.7 3.7 3 0 0
2019 11.2 11.2 24 0 0
2018 11.9 11.1 30 0 0
2017 5.0 4.7 15 0 0
2016 7.3 4.8 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · IL · Chicago

1,555 Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) 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 Swissport Ground Handling - MIA - MIA-GHA 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unifi Aviation Services : ORF - Norfolk 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DGS Aviation Services : SBN - South Bend 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SCKCX0ABX SCK - ABX 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3 Lincoln Center 320 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liebovich Steel & Aluminum 320 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swissport Cargo Services - Ops 1 - ORD CGO 1 320 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coal City School District 320 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 ASTI - Troutman Location 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sedano's Supermarket #23 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Maclean Saegertown, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0146 - Livermore Ca Whse 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Excela Health Home Care & Hospice 320 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1332 - North Miami Fl Whse 320 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1021 - Maplewood Mn Whse 320 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0733 - Lehi Ut Whse 320 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.