Looking for (primarily safety) schools with a good aerospace engineering major.

Missouri Science & Technology, formerly Univ Missouri @ Rolla, formerly Missouri School of Mines, should be on your list. Very good school, it is the designated top-tier engineering and sciences campus for the University of Missouri system. It has been a feeder into jobs at Boeing, formerly McDonnell Douglass, for decades and decades, and it seems every other Boeing engineer I know went to school there.