Scheduled air passenger carriers · Illinois

Spirit Airlines - ORD

Chicago, IL · ~827 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spirit Airlines - ORD runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Scheduled air passenger carriers workplace, earning a grade A.

Spirit Airlines - ORD: 1.8 TCR = 40% of Scheduled air passenger carriers BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spirit Airlines - ORD safety composite

Spirit Airlines - ORD scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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 - ORD: 1.2 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2023

Spirit Airlines - ORD's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.2 in 2022 to 2.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 40% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #18/58
  • PHOTO Kodiak Alaska - CS
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~827 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kodiak Alaska - CS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spirit Airlines - ORD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spirit Airlines - ORD averages 1.8 TCR (40% 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 - ORD TCR series: 2022=1.2 · 2023=2.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Spirit Airlines - ORD falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled air passenger carrie establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 58 Scheduled air passenger carrie employers in Illinois.

Spirit Airlines - ORD (827 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 - ORD
Spirit Airlines - ORD (827 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Spirit Airlines - ORD 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 2.3 2.3 8 0 0
2022 1.2 1.2 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · IL · Chicago

1,568 Scheduled air passenger carriers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 Kodiak Alaska - CS 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mesa Airlines, Inc. - CO 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Air Lines CAE 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Air Lines - MDW 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHI Overhead Doors, Arthur 829 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORA 829 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Insulation Systems, Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Amay's Bakery & Noodle Co., Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tolk Station-124 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Independent Living, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 487981-San Antonio Tx P&Dc 827 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moreno Valley Distribution Center 827 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mimedx Group, Inc 827 FTE
NAT-SIZE McDonough, DC 827 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.