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
DAL-ITP Dallas, TX D 8.5
Sw-20730222-Mx Sbn - South Bend, in South Bend, IN D 8.5
Sw-20730146-Mx Mke - Milwaukee, Wi - Sw Milwaukee, WI D 8.5
DFW-358 Dfw Airport, TX D 8.4
International Aerospace Coatings (IAC) GEG Spokane, WA D 8.4
John Bean Technologies Corporation PHL Essington, PA D 8.3
418 Columbus Afb, MS D 8.2
Uniflight Grand Prairie, TX D 8.2
BUF Buffalo, NY D 8.1
MDW Chicago, IL D 8.1
2073-EJ-20730192-MX Chicago, IL D 8.1
Sioux Gateway Airport Sioux City, IA D 8.1
Rose Aircraft Services Mena, AR D 8.0
JetWorx Van Nuys, CA D 8.0
DFW Grapevine, TX D 8.0
Lockheed Martin Corporation US CA San Diego 30th St (5156) San Diego, CA D 8.0
SFS Corpus Christi-246CRP Corpus Christi, TX D 7.9
Affordable Avionics Inc Chino, CA D 7.9
9215-KYSDF Louisville, KY D 7.9
SMF Sacramento, CA D 7.9
1st Choice Aerospace Hebron, KY D 7.8
DI - NASA AMOS (El Paso) El Paso, TX D 7.8
G1 Facility Services Inc - Ewr 100 Brewster Rd Newark, NJ D 7.7
OAK Oakland, CA D 7.6
Sw-20730045-Mx Lax - Los Angeles, Ca - Sw Los Angeles, CA D 7.6
Eb Airfoils LLC Palm City, FL D 7.6
SAN San Diego, CA D 7.5
PKL Services, VX9 Ridgecrest, CA D 7.5
Signature Flight Support Miami - OPF Miami, FL D 7.5
PDX-ITP Portland, OR D 7.5
Pacific Aviation - San Jose San Jose, CA D 7.5
Cedar Rapids Air (Iacra) Cedar Rapids, IA D 7.5
FLL-GH Fort Lauderdale, FL D 7.4
Sjc Sjc San Jose, CA D 7.4
9123-Lgb-Prime Appearance Long Beach, CA D 7.4
DI - Army CLS Dothan AL Dothan, AL D 7.4
Signature Flight Support Oakland Oakland, CA D 7.4
MKE-GH Milwaukee, WI D 7.4
Okc Will Rogers World Airport Oklahoma City, OK D 7.4
Signature Flight Support Tampa Tampa, FL D 7.4
Codia - Denver International Airport Denver, CO D 7.3
Signature Flight Support Atlantic City Atlantic City, NJ D 7.3
JBT AeroTech Corporation Airport Services OGG Kahului, HI D 7.3
Salt Lake Airport (Utslk) Salt Lake City, UT D 7.3
Signature Flight Support Spokane Spokane, WA D 7.3
9123-Sav-Prime Appearance Savannah, GA D 7.2
BWI Glen Burnie, MD D 7.2
AccuFleet International 2020 Data Houston, TX D 7.2
Holman Aviation Great Falls, MT D 7.1
ATL-GH Atlanta, GA D 7.1
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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.