Aircraft manufacturing · California

General Atomics - Poway - A23

Name: General Atomics - Poway - A23 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Poway, CA · ~469 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

General Atomics - Poway - A23 runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

General Atomics - Poway - A23: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Atomics - Poway - A23 safety composite

General Atomics - Poway - A23 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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 - A23 held a steady TCR band

General Atomics - Poway - A23's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.5 in 2021 to 0.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.5 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

DART 0.2 DART
RANK #18/107
PHOTO General Atomics - Po…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~469 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Atomics - Poway - A40 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saab Inc. Aero

0.4
Bell - Plant 2

0.4
General Atomic

0.4

What this shows General Atomics - Poway - A23 averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Aircraft manufacturing BLS benchmark).

General Atomics - Poway - A23 TCR series: 2021=0.5 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=0.2 · BLS 3.3

Where General Atomics - Poway - A23 falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 107 Aircraft manufacturing employers in California.

General Atomics - Poway - A23 (469 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

General Atomics - Poway - A23 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
2024	0.2	0.2	1
2023	0.2	0.2	1
2022	0.6	0.4	3
2021	0.5	0.3	2

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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	General Atomics - Poway - A40	POWAY, CA	0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Saab Inc. Aeronautics Indiana	WEST LAFAYETTE, IN	0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bell - Plant 2	FORT WORTH, TX	0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	General Atomics - Spanish Fork - AS02	SPANISH FORK, UT	0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	NGC CONSTRUCTION INC	VISALIA	469 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Stryker Neurovascular	FREMONT	469 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Taylor Guitars	EL CAJON	469 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Core-Mark Distribution	CORONA	469 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus	Poway	4,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Geneal Atomics Facilities and Support Groups	Poway	1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Palomar Medical Center Poway	Poway	889 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Atomics - Poway - A15	Poway	661 FTE
NAT-TCR	Eagle Railcar Services - Orange, Texas, LLC	Orange, TX	0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ambassador Services LLC	Houston, TX	0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	1925 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch, Texas 75234	Farmers Branch, TX	0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Safavieh L35	Savannah, GA	0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Archbold OH	Archbold, OH	469 FTE
NAT-SIZE	West Liberty Foods	Bolingbrook, IL	469 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lodge Manufacturing	South Pittsburg, TN	469 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lakeshore Management	Skokie, IL	469 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.