Industry profile · NAICS 488190

Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding)

Workplace injury rates across 1,087 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

1,087
Employers
4.1
Avg TCR
4.5
BLS benchmark
17,239
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) average 4.1 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 4.5.

4.1
avg TCR · reporting employers
4.5
BLS national benchmark
1,087
employers reporting
17,239
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) Safety Data Reveals

The Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) sector (NAICS 488190) encompasses 1,087 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 17,239 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.1 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 4.5 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 4.1 is below the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Immaculate Flight Dallas Dallas, TX F 25.1
PKL Services, Inc.-CA-Miramar San Diego, CA F 24.9
DI - AFM West Ft Carson Colorado Springs, CO F 21.8
PHX-GH Phoenix, AZ F 20.5
PKL Services, Mtn. Home Mountain Home, ID F 18.9
Trego/Dugan Aviation of GI GRI Grand Island, NE F 18.4
Iscar GSE Miami, FL F 18.1
Auspw9667 Aus - Ramp Pax Austin, TX F 17.6
Fleyw Fleyw Key West, FL F 17.5
Utslc Utslc Salt Lake City, UT F 17.0
Fleet Division - Heliport days Van Nuys, CA F 16.9
Mtj Montrose Regional Airport Montrose, CO F 16.7
BZN-GH Belgrade, MT F 16.6
AIRtec, Inc. Lexington Park, MD F 15.1
International Aerospace Coatings Spokane, WA F 14.9
Bdlxl0001 Bdlxl0001 Windsor Locks, CT F 14.4
Fleet Division - Heliport Van Nuys, CA F 14.4
Bli Bellingham International Airport Bellingham, WA F 14.4
PKL Services, Inc.-Mountain Home Mountain Home, ID F 14.0
9123-Dal-Prime Appearance Dallas, TX F 14.0
TAC Air - PVU Provo, UT F 13.8
LAX-GH El Segundo, CA F 13.5
DEN-UA Denver, CO F 13.1
Miacx0ups Mia Ups Miami, FL F 13.1
Immaculate Flight Los Angeles Van Nuys, CA F 13.0
DEN-ITP Denver, CO F 12.9
DEN-F9 Denver, CO F 12.8
Harrisburg Airport (Pamdt) Middletown, PA F 12.8
Eulen Aviation RSW Station Fort Myers, FL F 12.8
3025_5844 Marshall, VA F 12.7
International Aerospace Coatings, Inc. Victorville, CA F 12.5
Araina Aviation Chino, CA F 12.5
FW American Aero Operating Company Fort Worth, TX F 12.4
ORD-GH Chicago, IL F 12.4
ACI Jet Maintenance San Luis Obispo, CA F 12.4
LAX Los Angeles, CA F 12.3
Airport Aviation Services, Inc. Carolina, PR F 11.9
Avmax Montana, Inc. Great Falls, MT F 11.9
MSY-ITP Kenner, LA F 11.9
Mco Jb Orlando, FL F 11.8
DI - AFM West JB Lewis-McChord Jb Lewis-Mcchord, WA F 11.7
Idbos - Boise Gateway Boise, ID F 11.6
Kysdf Kysdf Louisville, KY F 11.5
Superior Aircraft Services - Wilmington Wilmington, NC F 11.3
Northeast Air Portland, ME F 11.1
Signature Flight Support GRR MRO Grand Rapids, MI F 11.0
9215-ATLSKY Atlanta, GA F 11.0
Minneapolis - St. Paul Airport (Mnmtp) Minneapolis, MN F 11.0
Spectra Jet, Incorporated Springfield, OH F 10.9
LAX-220 El Segundo, CA F 10.9
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This sector averages 4.1 against a BLS benchmark of 4.5 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.