Transportation · Washington

SEA - Ground Ops

Seattle, WA · ~196 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore Editorial, Employer Workplace Safety Editorial Team

F
Failing Safety Record: 15.2
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

The verdict

SEA - Ground Ops runs at 338% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record: 15.2
avg TCR · per 100 workers: 4.5
industry benchmark (BLS): 123
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares SEA - Ground Ops's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 5 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

SEA - Ground Ops's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 4.5 industry benchmark.

Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 481111.

Where SEA - Ground Ops falls in its industry

1,703 Transportation establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 45 Transportation employers in Washington.

SEA - Ground Ops has an average TCR of 15.2, which is 338% of the industry average (4.5) for Transportation. This is significantly worse than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for SEA - Ground Ops

Between 2016 and 2020, SEA - Ground Ops's Total Case Rate improved from 25.2 to 5.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 77% decrease across 4 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 5.8, while 2016 saw the highest rate, at 25.2, a spread of 19.4 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 5 reporting years, SEA - Ground Ops recorded 123 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 5-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from SEA - Ground Ops's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 481111 - Transportation.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

6 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 276,234 hours worked = 4.34 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark	TCR	Source
SEA - Ground Ops (this establishment)	15.23	OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg
Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation industry avg	4.50	BLS IIF, NAICS 481111
Washington state avg (all industries)	6.20	OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by SEA - Ground Ops to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

2020: 8 reportable incidents · 6 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2019: 30 reportable incidents · 27 injuries, 3 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2018: 24 reportable incidents · 23 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2017: 26 reportable incidents · 26 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2016: 45 reportable incidents · 41 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses
2020	5.8	4.3	6	2
2019	14.7	10.8	27	3
2018	11.4	8.6	23	1
2017	19.0	16.1	26	0
2016	25.2	19.1	41	4

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on SEA - Ground Ops's reported OSHA injury record versus its Transportation peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

At 338% of the Transportation benchmark, SEA - Ground Ops reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
Judge this record against the wider Transportation sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is SEA - Ground Ops's safety grade?

SEA - Ground Ops has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 15.2 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 4.5 for Transportation.

How many injuries has SEA - Ground Ops reported?

SEA - Ground Ops has reported 123 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 5 years of OSHA data (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.