Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing · Oregon

Van's Aircraft Inc.

Aurora, OR · ~98 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van's Aircraft Inc. runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Van's Aircraft Inc.: 7.0 TCR = 212% of Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van's Aircraft Inc. safety composite

Van's Aircraft Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Van's Aircraft Inc.: 4.6 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Van's Aircraft Inc.'s TCR rose 3.5 from 4.6 in 2017 to 8.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · Aurora, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 212% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO Lenco Marine
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lenco Marine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Van's Aircraft Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van's Aircraft Inc. averages 7.0 TCR (212% of the Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Van's Aircraft Inc. TCR series: 2017=4.6 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Van's Aircraft Inc. falls in its industry

189 Aircraft hardware, metal, manu establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Van's Aircraft Inc. (98 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Van's Aircraft Inc.
Van's Aircraft Inc. (98 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Van's Aircraft Inc. has more employees than the Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 8.1 4.7 5 2 0
2023 8.3 8.3 1 0 0
2017 4.6 0.0 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · OR · Aurora

189 Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 20 employers in Aurora, OR · 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 Lenco Marine 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hudson Lock, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sargent Manufacturing 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flexco Clipper Belt Lacer 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coos Forest Protective Association 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beaverton Quarry 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deacon Construction, LLC - OR 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunset Heating Cooling Plumbing LLC 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Helicopters 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Canby Excavating, Inc. 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Texstar - Aurora 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winco Powerline Services 60 FTE
NAT-TCR Johnson City Tn 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Haven for Hope of Bexar County 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Leonard A. Kraus Co., Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1789 Far11 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE WDS Construction 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hansen Bros. Enterprises 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3002 Hanley Rd 40 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE H&W Construction Co. Inc. 98 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, 2017. 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.