# Rocket Lab USA safety record

DEPLOY has no incidents on file for Rocket Lab USA. This rolls up incidents attached directly to Rocket Lab USA, to its models, and to its deployments (operated or manufactured).

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## Incidents (0)

_No incidents on record. Absence of a recorded incident is not proof of a clean operating history._

## Exposure

DEPLOY does not have exposure data (deployment-hours, miles driven, or rides given) on file for Rocket Lab USA. No incident count above can be turned into a defensible rate without it. NHTSA's SGO dataset itself does not publish exposure denominators; there is no standardized, regulator-verified nationwide source for AV fleet mileage or ride counts today.

## Common questions

**What is Rocket Lab USA's safety record?**

DEPLOY has no incidents on file for Rocket Lab USA. This reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date, drawn primarily from NHTSA's Standing General Order crash-reporting program and press coverage; it is not a safety guarantee, and absence of a recorded incident is not proof of a clean operating history.

**Is Rocket Lab USA safer than a human driver?**

DEPLOY does not have exposure data (miles driven or hours operated) on file for Rocket Lab USA, so no per-mile or per-hour safety rate can be computed from this registry today. This is a documented industry-wide data gap, not unique to DEPLOY: NHTSA's own SGO dataset does not publish exposure denominators alongside crash counts. Any rate comparison you see elsewhere may rely on a company's self-published mileage figures, which are not independently audited.

**Does DEPLOY redact or omit crash details for Rocket Lab USA?**

No. DEPLOY does not redact incident narratives. Where a source narrative is itself incomplete (for example, a NHTSA SGO filing redacted as confidential business information), DEPLOY states that plainly rather than filling the gap. See "A note on NHTSA's crash-reporting data" below.


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