Rockets (guided missiles), space and military, complete, manufacturing · California
Virgin Orbit
Long Beach, CA · ~565 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- A
- Excellent Safety Record
- 1.4
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Virgin Orbit runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Rockets (guided missiles), space and military, complete, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.
Virgin Orbit: 1.4 TCR = 41% of Rockets (guided missiles), space and military, complete, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Virgin Orbit safety composite
Virgin Orbit scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).
30/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- D 1.36 per 100 workers
Safer than 40% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 2.41 per 100 workers
Safer than 4% 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%).
Rising injury rate
Virgin Orbit: 1.1 → 2.9 TCR
Peak year 2022 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.77× in 2022
Virgin Orbit's TCR rose 1.8 from 1.1 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 336414 · Long Beach, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID
Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 41% of ind
- DART 2.4 DART
- RANK #9/19
- PHOTO Raytheon_Redstone_AL…
- BOOK 5y book
- INJ 17 inj
- SIZE ~565 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Raytheon_Redstone_AL_RRMIF (0.0 TCR gap)
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Virgin Orbit in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Virgin Orbit
1.4 TCR
- LA002
LA002
1.4 TCR
- Lockheed Marti
Lockheed Martin Corporation Kings Bay Campus (1559)
1.4 TCR
- Lockheed Marti
Lockheed Martin Corporation Troy Campus (1046)
1.4 TCR
- Raytheon_Redst
Raytheon_Redstone_AL_RRMIF
1.3 TCR
What this shows Virgin Orbit averages 1.4 TCR (41% of the Rockets (guided missiles), space and military, complete, manufacturing BLS benchmark).
Virgin Orbit TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=2.9 · BLS 3.3
Where Virgin Orbit falls in its industry
82 Rockets (guided missiles), spa establishmentsSafer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.1.
Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 19 Rockets (guided missiles), spa employers in California.
Virgin Orbit has more employees than the Rockets (guided missiles), space and mil median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.1. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 5 | 13 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
336414 · CA · Long Beach
82 Rockets (guided missiles), space and military, complete, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 614 employers in Long Beach, 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 | Raytheon_Redstone_AL_RRMIF | 1.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | LA002 | 1.4 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Lockheed Martin Corporation Kings Bay Campus (1559) | 1.4 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Lockheed Martin Corporation Troy Campus (1046) | 1.4 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | BISHOP RANCH 1, BUILDING Y | 565 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Crane Aerospace Hydro-Aire | 565 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Lake Mathews - 01-LM | 565 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Gosch Auto Group | 565 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Memorialcare Long Beach Medical Center | 3,755 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | LBM00 LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MED CENTER | 3,552 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Total Terminals International, LLC. | 2,683 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | California Department of Transportation Facility 300 | 2,621 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Roses 535 | 1.4 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | AUSTIN FOAM/SEALED AIR CORP-Tenn | 1.4 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Koch Fertilizer Ft. Dodge | 1.4 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Batkowski Life Safety Corp. | 1.4 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | MONTBLEU | 565 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Safety Building Cleaning Corp | 565 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | 6975-1L17 | 565 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Intelligrated Lifecycle Support Service | 565 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.