Other Airport Services · California

Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-GHA

Burlingame, CA · ~343 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-GHA runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Other Airport Services workplace, earning a grade C.

Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-GHA: 5.0 TCR = 112% of Other Airport Services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-GHA safety composite

Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-GHA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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)
D 5.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−2.5

2023→2024

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

Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-GHA's TCR fell 2.5 from 6.3 in 2023 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.3 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Burlingame, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 112% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #70/166
  • PHOTO FATCX0UPS FAT - UPS
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~343 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FATCX0UPS FAT - UPS (0.0 TCR gap)

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

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

TCR

What this shows Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-GHA averages 5.0 TCR (112% 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 - SFO - SFO-GHA TCR series: 2023=6.3 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 4.5

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

1,555 Other Airport Services establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 166 Other Airport Services employers in California.

Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-GHA (343 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 - SFO - SFO-GHA
Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-GHA (343 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-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 3.8 3.2 14 0 0
2023 6.3 4.3 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · CA · Burlingame

1,555 Other Airport Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 93 employers in Burlingame, CA · 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 FATCX0UPS FAT - UPS 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prospect Airport Services PHL 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elliott Aviation of Des Moines 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE HAYNES GEN STATION 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunbelt Controls 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE E&J Gallo Livingston 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kerr Corp 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (360-22) 1,835 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30191) 1,765 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2453-00060388-60388 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR SFO-SPUSA 512 FTE
NAT-TCR Granite Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cottonwood Tucson 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Iron Works 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cliff Castle Casino 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverside 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE CoorsTek, Inc. - Clear Creek Valley Plant 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brethren Retirement Community 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE LEWCO, Inc - Lane Street 343 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.