Other Airport Services · Illinois

Swissport Ground Handling - ORD - ORD-GHA

Chicago, IL · ~246 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swissport Ground Handling - ORD - ORD-GHA runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Airport Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Swissport Ground Handling - ORD - ORD-GHA: 7.1 TCR = 158% of Other Airport Services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swissport Ground Handling - ORD - ORD-GHA safety composite

Swissport Ground Handling - ORD - ORD-GHA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−0.9

2023→2024

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

Swissport Ground Handling - ORD - ORD-GHA's TCR fell 0.9 from 7.5 in 2023 to 6.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.5 · 2024=6.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 158% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #49/61
  • PHOTO MSYCX0745 MSY - UPS
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~246 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MSYCX0745 MSY - UPS (0.0 TCR gap)

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

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

TCR

What this shows Swissport Ground Handling - ORD - ORD-GHA averages 7.1 TCR (158% 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 - ORD - ORD-GHA TCR series: 2023=7.5 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 4.5

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

1,555 Other Airport Services establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 61 Other Airport Services employers in Illinois.

Swissport Ground Handling - ORD - ORD-GHA (246 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 - ORD - ORD-GHA
Swissport Ground Handling - ORD - ORD-GHA (246 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Swissport Ground Handling - ORD - ORD-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 6.6 4.6 13 0 0
2023 7.5 5.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · IL · Chicago

1,555 Other Airport Services 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 MSYCX0745 MSY - UPS 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMH059 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLT_UTILITY 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EUG EUG 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Distribution Dispatch Center 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE RG Construction Services, Inc. 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cheese Merchants of America 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE FGS Precise LLC 246 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 Aurora Energy, LLC 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Smyth County Machine and Fabrication LLC 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ShipBob Moreno Valley 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR J. Solotken & Co., Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Star of Honolulu 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mark VII Equipment 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huron Area Center for Independence 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Sapphire 246 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.