Airport baggage handling services · Washington

SEA Sea-Tac Airport

Seattle, WA · ~336 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SEA Sea-Tac Airport runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Airport baggage handling services workplace, earning a grade A.

SEA Sea-Tac Airport: 2.2 TCR = 50% of Airport baggage handling services BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SEA Sea-Tac Airport safety composite

SEA Sea-Tac Airport scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−3.2

2017→2023

SEA Sea-Tac Airport injury rate improved

SEA Sea-Tac Airport's TCR fell 3.2 from 3.9 in 2017 to 0.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.9 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=0.3 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Seattle, WA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #4/26
  • PHOTO Atlantic Aviation - …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~336 FTE

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

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SEA Sea-Tac Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SEA Sea-Tac Airport averages 2.2 TCR (50% 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

SEA Sea-Tac Airport TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=0.3 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=0.7 · BLS 4.5

Where SEA Sea-Tac Airport falls in its industry

1,555 Airport baggage handling servi establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 26 Airport baggage handling servi employers in Washington.

SEA Sea-Tac Airport (336 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 SEA Sea-Tac Airport
SEA Sea-Tac Airport (336 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

SEA Sea-Tac Airport 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
2023 0.7 0.7 3 0 0
2022 2.2 1.1 6 0 0
2021 2.4 0.9 5 0 0
2020 3.3 2.5 4 0 0
2019 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2018 2.8 0.0 9 0 0
2017 3.9 0.6 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · WA · Seattle

1,555 Airport baggage handling services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, WA · 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 - IAH 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metropolitan Nashville Airport Auhtority 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAR UNITED GROUND EXPRESS-FAR 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00001092 PVU - 092 PROVO AIRPORT 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE PCI Seattle Interior (552) 336 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2550 336 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0662 - BURLINGTON WA WHSE 336 FTE
STATE-SIZE WASTT - SHORELINE 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The United States of America 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starz Entertainment 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW 11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR Valley Morning star 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FTP1 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4667 Mesa, AZ 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Heavyquip Houston 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern California Hospital, Hollywood 336 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dart X, Inc 336 FTE
NAT-SIZE amity packing 336 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt Regional Medical Center 336 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.