Aircraft manufacturing · California

General Atomics - Poway - A18

Poway, CA · ~435 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Atomics - Poway - A18 runs at 5% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

General Atomics - Poway - A18: 0.2 TCR = 5% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Atomics - Poway - A18 safety composite

General Atomics - Poway - A18 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% 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%).

General Atomics - Poway - A18 held a steady TCR band

General Atomics - Poway - A18's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=0.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 5% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/107
  • PHOTO CO002
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~435 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CO002 (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Atomics - Poway - A18 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Atomics - Poway - A18 averages 0.2 TCR (5% 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 - A18 TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where General Atomics - Poway - A18 falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #8 safest of 107 Aircraft manufacturing employers in California.

General Atomics - Poway - A18 (435 employees, TCR 0.2) 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 - A18
General Atomics - Poway - A18 (435 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

General Atomics - Poway - A18 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 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.4 0.2 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 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 CO002 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR UT002 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - G92 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CA029 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE S & S HARVEST INC 435 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super Store Industries 435 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2735 435 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3464 435 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 General Atomics - Poway - A15 661 FTE
NAT-TCR MacAllister Rental Byron Center 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Scallon Controls, Inc. 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Olin Chlor Alkali Products Plaquemine LA 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Equipment Division Baton Rouge LA 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE MMC- Rice Lake 435 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - STL9 435 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nuts.com 435 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3892 - Lake City FL FDC 435 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.