Aircraft manufacturing · California

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus

Poway, CA · ~4,933 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus: 1.1 TCR = 35% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus safety composite

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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. - Poway Campus held a steady TCR band

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.1 in 2018 to 1.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.1 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336411 · Poway, CA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #35/107
  • PHOTO General Atomics - Po…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 149 inj
  • SIZE ~4,933 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Atomics - Poway - A25 (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus 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. - Poway Campus averages 1.1 TCR (35% 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. - Poway Campus TCR series: 2018=1.1 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=1.3 · BLS 3.3

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

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 67% 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 #35 safest of 107 Aircraft manufacturing employers in California.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus (4,933 employees, TCR 1.1) 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. - Poway Campus
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus (4,933 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus 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 1.3 0.9 51 1 0
2019 1.1 0.8 43 0 0
2018 1.1 0.8 55 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336411 · CA · Poway

390 Aircraft manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 143 employers in Poway, 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 - A25 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dassault Aircraft Services RENO 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Atomics - Poway - A31 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell - Ozark 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CA-10 4,926 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Regional Medical Center 4,921 FTE
STATE-SIZE National University 4,955 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 433 4,907 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geneal Atomics Facilities and Support Groups 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Poway 889 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics - Poway - A15 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corovan Moving & Storage 567 FTE
NAT-TCR KanPak Dunndee whse 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Baker's IGA Scio 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley Furniture Homestore- Jackson 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Emory University Hospital - EHC 4,931 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roche Diagnostics Operations 4,924 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Castle Inc. 4,945 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lewis Tree Service, Inc. Corporate Office 4,947 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.