Museums · Alabama

US Space & Rocket Center

Huntsville, AL · ~630 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

US Space & Rocket Center runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Museums workplace, earning a grade D.

US Space & Rocket Center: 4.0 TCR = 131% of Museums BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

US Space & Rocket Center safety composite

US Space & Rocket Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

US Space & Rocket Center held a steady TCR band

US Space & Rocket Center's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.2 in 2022 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.2 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Huntsville, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 131% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Minneapolis Institut…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~630 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Minneapolis Institute of Art (0.0 TCR gap)

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US Space & Rocket Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows US Space & Rocket Center averages 4.0 TCR (131% of the Museums BLS benchmark).

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

US Space & Rocket Center TCR series: 2022=4.2 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.1

Where US Space & Rocket Center falls in its industry

246 Museums establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Museums employers in Alabama.

US Space & Rocket Center (630 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 US Space & Rocket Center
US Space & Rocket Center (630 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

US Space & Rocket Center has more employees than the Museums median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 3.9 3.5 18 1 0
2022 4.2 1.4 11 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · AL · Huntsville

246 Museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 454 employers in Huntsville, AL · 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 Minneapolis Institute of Art 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cook Museum of Natural Science 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Leonardo 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hagley Museum and Library 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE SMART Alabama LLC 632 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reed Contracting Services, Inc. 627 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical 625 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marvin's Hardware 635 FTE
CITY-NEAR AL004 2,929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dynetics A Leidos Company 2,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leidos - Dynetics 2,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota Motor Mfg of Alabama 1,874 FTE
NAT-TCR Zimmer Biomet AE Medical 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 196 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MUSC Health Charleston Main 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Vcu Health 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kite Pharma, Inc. 630 FTE
NAT-SIZE PECO Foods West Point 630 FTE
NAT-SIZE Master Klean Janitorial, INC 630 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Puerto Rico, Inc. 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: 2024, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.