Guided missile and space vehicle engine manufacturing · Maryland

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton

Elkton, MD · ~630 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Guided missile and space vehicle engine manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Guided missile and space vehicle engine manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton safety composite

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2021→2023

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton injury rate improved

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton's TCR fell 2.2 from 2.9 in 2021 to 0.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.9 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Firefly Aerospace Br…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~630 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Firefly Aerospace Briggs (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton averages 2.7 TCR (83% 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

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton TCR series: 2021=2.9 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton falls in its industry

48 Guided missile and space vehic establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #5 safest of 5 Guided missile and space vehic employers in Maryland.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton (630 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton (630 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 374 employees and a TCR of 0.9

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - 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
2023 0.7 0.3 1 3 0
2022 4.6 4.4 4 19 0
2021 2.9 2.5 2 11 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 Firefly Aerospace Briggs 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Dynamics, Ordnance and Tactical Systems Lincoln West Operations 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williams International, LLC (WL) 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teledyne Turbine Engines 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Century Engineering, LLC - A Kleinfelder Company 627 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 634 FTE
STATE-SIZE MO East - BETHESDA MD 636 FTE
STATE-SIZE WASHINGTON NDC_1434471 637 FTE
CITY-NEAR Union Hospital of Cecil County 1,231 FTE
CITY-NEAR TERUMO MEDICAL CORPORATION 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGDS-MD50 597 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton 513 FTE
NAT-TCR Bristol Care Center 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay City Mechanical Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brandkamp Cabinets LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR holmberg Co. Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arizona's Children Association 630 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1223 Swn1000 630 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA - Adidas (Bloomington) 630 FTE
NAT-SIZE PECO Foods West Point 630 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.