Aircraft manufacturing · California

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems

San Diego, CA · ~438 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems: 0.4 TCR = 11% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems safety composite

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems 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

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2018→2020

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems injury rate improved

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems's TCR fell 0.6 from 0.6 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 0.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.6 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336411 · San Diego, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/107
  • PHOTO General Atomics - Po…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~438 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Atomics - Poway - A40 (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems 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. - Mission Systems averages 0.4 TCR (11% 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. - Mission Systems TCR series: 2018=0.6 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 91% 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 #16 safest of 107 Aircraft manufacturing employers in California.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems (438 employees, TCR 0.4) 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. - Mission Systems
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems (438 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Mission Systems has more employees than the Aircraft manufacturing median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2018 0.6 0.6 2 1 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 General Atomics - Poway - A40 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Atomics - Poway - A23 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saab Inc. Aeronautics Indiana 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell - Plant 2 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Modesto Irrigation District 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE JandJ Vision Milpitas 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2253-H4842 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9277-511 KIRKWOOD MTN OPS 438 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 Ybor Data Center 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Optus Inc 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stillwater 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Perimeter Office #1001 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orgill West Virginia Distribution Center 438 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert LLC - 062 438 FTE
NAT-SIZE Icon Health & Fitness Inc 438 FTE
NAT-SIZE DES 438 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, 2018. 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.