Nonscheduled air freight transportation · California

Vandenberg Air Force Base

Vandenberg Afb, CA · ~128 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vandenberg Air Force Base runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nonscheduled air freight transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

Vandenberg Air Force Base: 9.1 TCR = 201% of Nonscheduled air freight transportation BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vandenberg Air Force Base safety composite

Vandenberg Air Force Base scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Vandenberg Air Force Base: 7.3 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2020

Vandenberg Air Force Base's TCR rose 6.5 from 7.3 in 2018 to 13.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481212 · Vandenberg Afb, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 201% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Ameriflight, LLC GEG
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ameriflight, LLC GEG (1.0 TCR gap)

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Vandenberg Air Force Base in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vandenberg Air Force Base averages 9.1 TCR (201% of the Nonscheduled air freight transportation BLS benchmark).

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

Vandenberg Air Force Base TCR series: 2018=7.3 · 2019=6 · 2020=13.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Vandenberg Air Force Base falls in its industry

24 Nonscheduled air freight trans establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Nonscheduled air freight trans employers in California.

Vandenberg Air Force Base (128 employees, TCR 9.1) among 12 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 4.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 13 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Vandenberg Air Force Base
Vandenberg Air Force Base (128 employees, TCR 9.1) among 12 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Vandenberg Air Force Base has more employees than the Nonscheduled air freight transportation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2020 13.8 11.0 5 0 0
2019 6.0 3.0 4 0 0
2018 7.3 3.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481212 · CA · Vandenberg Afb

24 Nonscheduled air freight transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 7 employers in Vandenberg Afb, 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 Ameriflight, LLC GEG 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ULA- Vandenberg Air Force Base SLC-6 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Coast Recovery 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aerospace QRD 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dick Peixoto Company 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE BATTH FARMS 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main operations location 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Services, LLC. 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CA Vandenberg AFB 8th St & N (1271) 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA038 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Vandenberg Air Force Base (1064) 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR ULA- Vandenberg Air Force Base 62 FTE
NAT-TCR Eventworks rentals Charleston 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1515 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DDS West Region 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Customer Service Center 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Biery Cheese Company Plover 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lessors, Inc.- Dover 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pyramid Mountain Lumber, Inc. 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Trucking, Inc. 128 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.