Aircraft manufacturing · California

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs

San Diego, CA · ~1,320 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs: 3.6 TCR = 111% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs safety composite

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs held a steady TCR band

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.8 in 2019 to 3.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.8 · 2020=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336411 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 111% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #90/107
  • PHOTO Oklahoma City Air Lo…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 81 inj
  • SIZE ~1,320 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (OC-ALC) (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs averages 3.6 TCR (111% of the Aircraft manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs TCR series: 2019=3.8 · 2020=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #90 safest of 107 Aircraft manufacturing employers in California.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs (1,320 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs (1,320 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Composite Shop Sabre Springs has more employees than the Aircraft manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2020 3.5 2.4 37 1 0
2019 3.8 3.2 44 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336411 · CA · San Diego

390 Aircraft manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (OC-ALC) 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NGTS-C701 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaman Aerosystems Blm. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SC006 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6458-TRAC 1,320 FTE
STATE-SIZE WILLIE MAYS PLAZA GIANTS STADIUM OPERATIONS 1,320 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Carlsbad 1,320 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 405 1,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Children's Behavioral Health (CBHI) Haverhill 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NEP Missouri HQ 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR QuantumClean-Hillsboro 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR West DuPage Recycling & Transfer 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Indiana University Health West Hospital 1,320 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nation Pizza & Foods (Schaumburg) 1,320 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota - World Headquarters 1,320 FTE
NAT-SIZE Good Samaritan Medical Center 1,319 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.