Scheduled air passenger carriers · Texas

Spirit Airlines - IAH

Houston, TX · ~719 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spirit Airlines - IAH runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Scheduled air passenger carriers workplace, earning a grade A.

Spirit Airlines - IAH: 2.0 TCR = 44% of Scheduled air passenger carriers BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spirit Airlines - IAH safety composite

Spirit Airlines - IAH scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

Spirit Airlines - IAH: 1.3 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2023

Spirit Airlines - IAH's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.3 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 44% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #26/146
  • PHOTO 9095-LAS
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~719 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 9095-LAS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spirit Airlines - IAH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spirit Airlines - IAH averages 2.0 TCR (44% of the Scheduled air passenger carriers BLS benchmark).

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

Spirit Airlines - IAH TCR series: 2022=1.3 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Spirit Airlines - IAH falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled air passenger carrie establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 146 Scheduled air passenger carrie employers in Texas.

Spirit Airlines - IAH (719 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Spirit Airlines - IAH
Spirit Airlines - IAH (719 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Spirit Airlines - IAH has more employees than the Scheduled air passenger carriers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 2.6 1.5 14 0 0
2022 1.3 0.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · TX · Houston

1,568 Scheduled air passenger carriers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 9095-LAS 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SRO-SOUTHERN RESERVATIONS OFFICE 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Air Lines - OGG 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LAX - Flight Ops 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Celanese 719 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2636-TEXAS.AUSTIN 719 FTE
STATE-SIZE L.K. Jordan & Associates - Houston 719 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ambassador Services LLC 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR FASNY Firemen's Home 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Gymnastics & Supply, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard by Marriott Orlando South 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Guillen Electric Company, Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE City Hall 719 FTE
NAT-SIZE 056745-San Bernardino Ca P&Dc 719 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Physician Services 719 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shearer's Foods Burlington 719 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. 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.