Aircraft manufacturing · California

General Atomics - Poway - A21

Poway, CA · ~261 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Atomics - Poway - A21 runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

General Atomics - Poway - A21: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Atomics - Poway - A21 safety composite

General Atomics - Poway - A21 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−1.8

2021→2024

General Atomics - Poway - A21 injury rate improved

General Atomics - Poway - A21's TCR fell 1.8 from 3.2 in 2021 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.2 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #62/107
  • PHOTO General Atomics - Po…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~261 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Atomics - Poway - A36 (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Atomics - Poway - A21 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Atomics - Poway - A21 averages 1.9 TCR (57% 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 - A21 TCR series: 2021=3.2 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where General Atomics - Poway - A21 falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #62 safest of 107 Aircraft manufacturing employers in California.

General Atomics - Poway - A21 (261 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 - A21
General Atomics - Poway - A21 (261 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

General Atomics - Poway - A21 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 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 2.4 2.1 8 0 0
2021 3.2 2.8 9 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 General Atomics - Poway - A36 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Stratford Main St (5225) 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Textron Aviation - IMF 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE R & N PACKING LLC 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE SANTA CLARA FARMS LLC 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coffman Specialties, Inc. 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Countywide Mechancial Systems, Inc. 261 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 Parkview Home 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Metric Manufacturing 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Association for Individual Development 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines - MSY 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DCS3 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prime Now LLC - UIL2 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE ProMed Molded Products - Medina 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pine Valley Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing 261 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.