Guided missile and space vehicle engine manufacturing · Maryland

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton

Elkton, MD · ~513 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Guided missile and space vehicle engine manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton: 1.2 TCR = 36% of Guided missile and space vehicle engine manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton safety composite

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton held a steady TCR band

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.1 in 2018 to 1.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.1 · 2019=1.0 · 2020=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336415 · Elkton, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 36% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Briggs Test Facility
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~513 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Briggs Test Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton averages 1.2 TCR (36% of the Guided missile and space vehicle engine manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton TCR series: 2018=1.1 · 2019=1 · 2020=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton falls in its industry

48 Guided missile and space vehic establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Guided missile and space vehic employers in Maryland.

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton (513 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 374 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 05,00010,00015,000 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton
Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton (513 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 374 employees and a TCR of 0.9

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton has more employees than the Guided missile and space vehicle engine median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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 1.4 1.4 3 4 0
2019 1.0 0.4 5 0 0
2018 1.1 0.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336415 · MD · Elkton

48 Guided missile and space vehicle engine manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 76 employers in Elkton, MD · 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 Briggs Test Facility 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aerojet Rocketdyne - Camden 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aerojet Rocketdyne - AMF North 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Dynamics, Ordanance and Tactical Systems - Lincoln Operations 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Freshly Inc. 513 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunt Valley Corporate Headquarters 513 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific Frederick MD (R&D, MFG, Facilities) 513 FTE
STATE-SIZE 99221 512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Union Hospital of Cecil County 1,231 FTE
CITY-NEAR TERUMO MEDICAL CORPORATION 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton 630 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGDS-MD50 597 FTE
NAT-TCR Christus SPOHN - Alice 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeside Mechanical Contractors 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Alpha Home-A Waters Community 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Alside Supply Center #153 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pitney Bowes Presort Services - Dallas Fort Worth (TX44) 513 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Milton's - 0705 513 FTE
NAT-SIZE Joy Global Surface Mining Inc. - Longview, TX 513 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millercoors Trenton Brewery 513 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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