Other Airport Services · Texas

Swissport Ground Handling - IAH - IAH-GHA

Houston, TX · ~169 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swissport Ground Handling - IAH - IAH-GHA runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Other Airport Services workplace, earning a grade A.

Swissport Ground Handling - IAH - IAH-GHA: 1.6 TCR = 35% of Other Airport Services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swissport Ground Handling - IAH - IAH-GHA safety composite

Swissport Ground Handling - IAH - IAH-GHA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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 - IAH - IAH-GHA: 0.7 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.54× in 2024

Swissport Ground Handling - IAH - IAH-GHA's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.7 in 2023 to 2.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 35% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #17/126
  • PHOTO Atlantic Aviation - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlantic Aviation - ORL (0.0 TCR gap)

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

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

TCR

What this shows Swissport Ground Handling - IAH - IAH-GHA averages 1.6 TCR (35% 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 - IAH - IAH-GHA TCR series: 2023=0.7 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 4.5

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

1,555 Other Airport Services establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 126 Other Airport Services employers in Texas.

Swissport Ground Handling - IAH - IAH-GHA (169 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 - IAH - IAH-GHA
Swissport Ground Handling - IAH - IAH-GHA (169 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Swissport Ground Handling - IAH - IAH-GHA has more employees than the Other Airport Services median and a lower 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 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2023 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · TX · Houston

1,555 Other Airport Services 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 Atlantic Aviation - ORL 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unifi Aviation Services : CHA - Chattanooga 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GAT - TXDFW 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DGS Aviation Services : GRK - Killeen 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE PYCO Industries Inc. 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE schoenmann produce company 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rumsey Construction Inc. 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reynolds asphalt and Construction Company 169 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 Grote Industries 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jefferson Healthcare Center, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Modern Transportation 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR South Jackson 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kaasco Inc. d.b.a. Kaas Tailored 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kentucky Eagle Inc. 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rock Regional Hospital 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation 169 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.