Airport baggage handling services · Illinois

Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5

Des Plaines, IL · ~776 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5 runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Airport baggage handling services workplace, earning a grade B.

Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5: 2.3 TCR = 52% of Airport baggage handling services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5 safety composite

Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5: 1.7 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2024

Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.7 in 2023 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Des Plaines, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #14/61
  • PHOTO Atlantic Aviation - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~776 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlantic Aviation - OMA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5 averages 2.3 TCR (52% of the Airport baggage handling services BLS benchmark).

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

Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5 TCR series: 2023=1.7 · 2024=3 · BLS 4.5

Where Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5 falls in its industry

1,555 Airport baggage handling servi establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #14 safest of 61 Airport baggage handling servi employers in Illinois.

Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5 (776 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5
Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5 (776 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5 has more employees than the Airport baggage handling services median and a lower 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 3.0 0.9 21 0 0
2023 1.7 0.7 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · IL · Des Plaines

1,555 Airport baggage handling services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 174 employers in Des Plaines, 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 Atlantic Aviation - OMA 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swissport Fueling Services - HOU - HOU-FUE 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unifi Aviation Services : PSP - Palm Springs 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DGS Aviation Services : LIH - Lihue 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maintenance 776 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plainfield Elementary School 776 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iroquois Community School 776 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orchard Place Elementary School 776 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR T&J East Syracuse 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #1284 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Supply Chain - Decatur 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Perma Cast 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE CLV 776 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta 776 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Services for Autistic Adults and Children (CSAAC) 776 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando Combo 776 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.

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

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