Other Airport Services · Virginia

Swissport Ground Handling - IAD - IAD-GHA

Dulles, VA · ~891 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swissport Ground Handling - IAD - IAD-GHA runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Airport Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Swissport Ground Handling - IAD - IAD-GHA: 7.3 TCR = 162% of Other Airport Services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swissport Ground Handling - IAD - IAD-GHA safety composite

Swissport Ground Handling - IAD - IAD-GHA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

Swissport Ground Handling - IAD - IAD-GHA: 6.8 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.16× in 2024

Swissport Ground Handling - IAD - IAD-GHA's TCR rose 1.0 from 6.8 in 2023 to 7.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Dulles, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 162% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #39/48
  • PHOTO Prospect Airport Ser…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 114 inj
  • SIZE ~891 FTE

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

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

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

TCR

What this shows Swissport Ground Handling - IAD - IAD-GHA averages 7.3 TCR (162% 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 - IAD - IAD-GHA TCR series: 2023=6.8 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 4.5

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

1,555 Other Airport Services establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 48 Other Airport Services employers in Virginia.

Swissport Ground Handling - IAD - IAD-GHA (891 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Swissport Ground Handling - IAD - IAD-GHA
Swissport Ground Handling - IAD - IAD-GHA (891 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Swissport Ground Handling - IAD - IAD-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 7.8 1.2 65 0 0
2023 6.8 4.7 49 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · VA · Dulles

1,555 Other Airport Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 103 employers in Dulles, VA · 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 AUS 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AGI MIA 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilmington International Airport 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SFO-SCS3 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ChemTreat, Inc 891 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zeiders Enterprises Inc. 890 FTE
STATE-SIZE New River Electrical Corp - Cloverdale 893 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - BWI4 889 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGSP-VA31 2,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orbital Sciences Corporation 1,467 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dynalectric Company 1,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dynalectric Company - Washington DC 1,270 FTE
NAT-TCR Marine Terminals Corporation - Fairfield 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Energy 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Marriott Construction 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR American Crane and Tractor Parts 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE St Ann's Home 891 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kleenmark 891 FTE
NAT-SIZE 115851-Miami Fl P&Dc 891 FTE
NAT-SIZE IN - Apple 891 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.