Testing services, aircraft · California

Virgin Galactic LLC

Mojave, CA · ~1,135 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Virgin Galactic LLC runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Testing services, aircraft workplace, earning a grade A.

Virgin Galactic LLC: 0.9 TCR = 20% of Testing services, aircraft BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Virgin Galactic LLC safety composite

Virgin Galactic LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Virgin Galactic LLC: 0.1 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Virgin Galactic LLC's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.1 in 2022 to 1.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488190 · Mojave, CA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/120
  • PHOTO L3 Technologies - Pope
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~1,135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: L3 Technologies - Pope (0.0 TCR gap)

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Virgin Galactic LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Virgin Galactic LLC averages 0.9 TCR (20% of the Testing services, aircraft BLS benchmark).

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

Virgin Galactic LLC TCR series: 2022=0.1 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Virgin Galactic LLC falls in its industry

992 Testing services, aircraft establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 120 Testing services, aircraft employers in California.

Virgin Galactic LLC (1,135 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Virgin Galactic LLC
Virgin Galactic LLC (1,135 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Virgin Galactic LLC has more employees than the Testing services, aircraft median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 1.5 0.0 2 0 0
2023 1.1 0.4 3 0 0
2022 0.1 0.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488190 · CA · Mojave

992 Testing services, aircraft employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 29 employers in Mojave, CA · 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 L3 Technologies - Pope 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 917 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL-C130 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR M1 SUPPORT SERVICES HOME OFFICE 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1701 S. Lexington St 1,135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masimo Corporation 1,135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare 1,136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fantasy Springs Resort Casino 1,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 512 1,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TSC,LLC 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Sanborn Solar Storage TerraGen1A 1B 20145007 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A402 364 FTE
NAT-TCR Prestige Bread Company of Jersey City Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard Hamilton 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fluid System Components Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Master Machine Works, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital 1,135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Residential HVAC and Supply : MFG-Trenton, NJ-USA 1,135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - CDW5 1,135 FTE
NAT-SIZE QVC, Inc. (Lancaster) 1,135 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, 2023, 2022. 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.