Aircraft manufacturing · California

General Atomics - Gray Butte

Palmdale, CA · ~544 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Atomics - Gray Butte runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

General Atomics - Gray Butte: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Atomics - Gray Butte safety composite

General Atomics - Gray Butte scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

General Atomics - Gray Butte: 1.3 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2024

General Atomics - Gray Butte's TCR rose 1.0 from 1.3 in 2021 to 2.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #47/107
  • PHOTO Airworthy, Inc - Ana…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~544 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Airworthy, Inc - Anaheim, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Atomics - Gray Butte in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Atomics - Gray Butte averages 1.5 TCR (45% 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 - Gray Butte TCR series: 2021=1.3 · 2022=1 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where General Atomics - Gray Butte falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #47 safest of 107 Aircraft manufacturing employers in California.

General Atomics - Gray Butte (544 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 - Gray Butte
General Atomics - Gray Butte (544 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

General Atomics - Gray Butte 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
2024 2.3 1.7 13 0 0
2023 1.5 0.6 8 0 0
2022 1.0 0.8 6 0 0
2021 1.3 0.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336411 · CA · Palmdale

390 Aircraft manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 135 employers in Palmdale, 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 Airworthy, Inc - Anaheim, CA 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation US TX Fort Worth Lockheed Blvd (1093) 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CA022 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation US MD Pax River Ranch Rd (3935) 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daly City 544 FTE
STATE-SIZE BEST Contracting Services Inc 543 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ventura Foods, LLC 545 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gruma Corp. Mission Foods Olympic 545 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A502 5,323 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-06 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Palmdale Campus (1513) 3,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 612 2,127 FTE
NAT-TCR Ochsner Medical Complex - Iberville 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vitesco Technologies USA LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hatfield, MA 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR KW Container - Chicago Heights 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Sevierville 544 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snowbasin Resort Company 544 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas Marengo 544 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watsontown Trucking Company 544 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.