Airport baggage handling services · North Carolina

SPPAL Charlotte

Charlotte, NC · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SPPAL Charlotte runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Airport baggage handling services workplace, earning a grade D.

SPPAL Charlotte: 7.9 TCR = 176% of Airport baggage handling services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SPPAL Charlotte safety composite

SPPAL Charlotte scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

SPPAL Charlotte: 3.0 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2018

SPPAL Charlotte's TCR rose 3.6 from 3.0 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 176% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #44/52
  • PHOTO New Hanover County A…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Hanover County Airport Authority (0.0 TCR gap)

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SPPAL Charlotte in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SPPAL Charlotte averages 7.9 TCR (176% 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

SPPAL Charlotte TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=14.2 · 2018=6.6 · BLS 4.5

Where SPPAL Charlotte falls in its industry

1,555 Airport baggage handling servi establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 52 Airport baggage handling servi employers in North Carolina.

SPPAL Charlotte (30 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 SPPAL Charlotte
SPPAL Charlotte (30 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

SPPAL Charlotte has fewer employees than the Airport baggage handling services 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
2018 6.6 6.6 2 0 0
2017 14.2 3.5 4 0 0
2016 3.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · NC · Charlotte

1,555 Airport baggage handling services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 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 New Hanover County Airport Authority 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR IAHPW9643 IAH - QATAR PAX RAMP 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DENPW0716 DEN - ABOVE WING 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR EYW UNITED GROUND EXPRESS-EYW 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shugart Farm 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hays Hatchery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hight Family Farms LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE High Point Operations Center 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Plant 69B 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Castle Rock Hotel and Waterpark 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Magnolia Haven Nursing Home 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Enid (Okeni) 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE JX Peterbilt - Lansing 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Sheet Plant 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE MPS Printery 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Liberty Residential - 40 Ridge Rd. 30 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.