Airports, civil, operation and maintenance · California

San Diego International Airport

San Diego, CA · ~92 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

San Diego International Airport runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Airports, civil, operation and maintenance workplace, earning a grade D.

San Diego International Airport: 6.3 TCR = 141% of Airports, civil, operation and maintenance BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

San Diego International Airport safety composite

San Diego International Airport scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−5.9

2017→2018

San Diego International Airport injury rate improved

San Diego International Airport's TCR fell 5.9 from 9.3 in 2017 to 3.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.3 · 2018=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 141% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #88/166
  • PHOTO BOS-SPUSA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BOS-SPUSA (0.0 TCR gap)

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San Diego International Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows San Diego International Airport averages 6.3 TCR (141% of the Airports, civil, operation and maintenance BLS benchmark).

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

San Diego International Airport TCR series: 2017=9.3 · 2018=3.4 · BLS 4.5

Where San Diego International Airport falls in its industry

1,555 Airports, civil, operation and establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 166 Airports, civil, operation and employers in California.

San Diego International Airport (92 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate San Diego International Airport
San Diego International Airport (92 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

San Diego International Airport has more employees than the Airports, civil, operation and maintenan 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
2018 3.4 1.9 6 1 0
2017 9.3 9.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · CA · San Diego

1,555 Airports, civil, operation and maintenance employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, CA · 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 BOS-SPUSA 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCO144 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ORDCC0167 ORD - AF 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DAY UNITED GROUND EXPRESS-DAY 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nunez Ag, Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Vineyard Management, Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Bella Nursery 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glass House Group Inc. 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR The Bridge at Columbia 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #62 (Great Falls, MT) 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 044 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Linc 0371 (Smyrna - F) 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1 - Theisen's - Dubuque 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE RGH Enterprises - Elgin, IL 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indian Creek Healthcare Center 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.L.P. Olive Branch 92 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.