Fixed Base Operator · Florida

Sheltair Aviation LAL

Lakeland, FL · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheltair Aviation LAL runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fixed Base Operator workplace, earning a grade D.

Sheltair Aviation LAL: 7.8 TCR = 172% of Fixed Base Operator BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheltair Aviation LAL safety composite

Sheltair Aviation LAL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Sheltair Aviation LAL: 4.2 → 19.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.46× in 2024

Sheltair Aviation LAL's TCR rose 14.9 from 4.2 in 2022 to 19.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Lakeland, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 172% of ind

  • DART 19.1 DART
  • RANK #126/160
  • PHOTO Unifi Aviation Servi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unifi Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheltair Aviation LAL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheltair Aviation LAL averages 7.8 TCR (172% of the Fixed Base Operator BLS benchmark).

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

Sheltair Aviation LAL TCR series: 2022=4.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=19.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Sheltair Aviation LAL falls in its industry

1,555 Fixed Base Operator establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #126 safest of 160 Fixed Base Operator employers in Florida.

Sheltair Aviation LAL (25 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Sheltair Aviation LAL
Sheltair Aviation LAL (25 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Sheltair Aviation LAL has fewer employees than the Fixed Base Operator 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
2024 19.1 19.1 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.2 4.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · FL · Lakeland

1,555 Fixed Base Operator employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 426 employers in Lakeland, FL · 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 Unifi Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prospect Airport Services SLC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TREGO/DUGAN AVIATION, INC PIT 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6957-EWR 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE McKenna Brothers, Inc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stanton 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE FM3 Ortiz Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE LC Lake City Office 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Regional Medical Center 5,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Distribution 2,927 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinic 1,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - KLAL 1,210 FTE
NAT-TCR GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TEAM Industries, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - SOR3 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Norfolk (18th Street) 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Branch 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE FM Thomas 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mees Distributors Inc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blaylock Gasket & Packing 25 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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