Other Airport Services · Massachusetts

Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA

East Boston, MA · ~511 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Airport Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA: 6.0 TCR = 132% of Other Airport Services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA safety composite

Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−2.3

2023→2024

Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA injury rate improved

Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA's TCR fell 2.3 from 7.1 in 2023 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.1 · 2024=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · East Boston, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 132% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #17/22
  • PHOTO Prospect Airport Ser…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~511 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prospect Airport Services LAS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA averages 6.0 TCR (132% of the Other Airport Services BLS benchmark).

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

Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA TCR series: 2023=7.1 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA falls in its industry

1,555 Other Airport Services establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 22 Other Airport Services employers in Massachusetts.

Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA (511 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA
Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA (511 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Swissport Ground Handling - BOS - BOS-GHA has more employees than the Other Airport 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
2024 4.8 4.8 21 0 0
2023 7.1 3.5 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · MA · East Boston

1,555 Other Airport Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 59 employers in East Boston, MA · 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 Prospect Airport Services LAS 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4765-JFKCX0AMZ 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swissport Fueling Services - LGA - LGA-FUE 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JANCX0UPS JAN - UPS 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Market Basket #65 511 FTE
STATE-SIZE Munters Corporation 512 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Center 512 FTE
STATE-SIZE UN1F1ED2MA 509 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-BOS-BOSTON-BOS-TRML 1,570 FTE
CITY-NEAR BOS-BOSTON-TERMINAL 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - BOS 1,276 FTE
CITY-NEAR BOS-SPUSA 480 FTE
NAT-TCR Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sprouse Building Products, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Molded Products, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Daniels Sharpsmart Inc - Gastonia 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE National OnDemand, Inc 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips Medical Systems 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE GAP Solutions, Inc. 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nikola Corporation 511 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. 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.