Aircraft manufacturing · California

General Atomics - Poway - A15

Poway, CA · ~661 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Atomics - Poway - A15 runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

General Atomics - Poway - A15: 7.2 TCR = 218% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Atomics - Poway - A15 safety composite

General Atomics - Poway - A15 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 - Poway - A15: 4.5 → 18.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.53× in 2024

General Atomics - Poway - A15's TCR rose 13.8 from 4.5 in 2021 to 18.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336411 · Poway, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 218% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #101/107
  • PHOTO Joby Aviation 980 In…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~661 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Joby Aviation 980 Industrial Rd San Carlos (0.1 TCR gap)

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General Atomics - Poway - A15 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Atomics - Poway - A15 averages 7.2 TCR (218% 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 - Poway - A15 TCR series: 2021=4.5 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=18.3 · BLS 3.3

Where General Atomics - Poway - A15 falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #101 safest of 107 Aircraft manufacturing employers in California.

General Atomics - Poway - A15 (661 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 - Poway - A15
General Atomics - Poway - A15 (661 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

General Atomics - Poway - A15 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
2024 18.3 11.0 9 1 0
2023 2.3 1.7 11 1 0
2022 3.6 3.1 25 0 0
2021 4.5 4.1 30 0 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 Joby Aviation 980 Industrial Rd San Carlos 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Heli-Support, LLC 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Force Technologies 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AIRBORNE SYSTEMS 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 163 661 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 164 661 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 166 661 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 167 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus 4,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geneal Atomics Facilities and Support Groups 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Poway 889 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corovan Moving & Storage 567 FTE
NAT-TCR Duracoatings Holdings, LLC 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DMD8 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Maintenance of Denver, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 2190 - Lubbock Marsha Sharp 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harlingen Medical Center 661 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 13007 661 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rest Serv Caters 661 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital Corporation 661 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.