Aircraft manufacturing · California

General Atomics - Poway - A28

Poway, CA · ~51 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Atomics - Poway - A28 runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

General Atomics - Poway - A28: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Atomics - Poway - A28 safety composite

General Atomics - Poway - A28 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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 - A28: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 4× in 2024

General Atomics - Poway - A28's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2021 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #24/107
  • PHOTO BETA Technologies, Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BETA Technologies, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Atomics - Poway - A28 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Atomics - Poway - A28 averages 0.5 TCR (16% 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 - A28 TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where General Atomics - Poway - A28 falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #24 safest of 107 Aircraft manufacturing employers in California.

General Atomics - Poway - A28 (51 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 - Poway - A28
General Atomics - Poway - A28 (51 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

General Atomics - Poway - A28 has fewer 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 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 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 BETA Technologies, Inc 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MA53 AMETEK AEROSPACE PRODUCTS 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GA007 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2967-MA53 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robert Young Vineyards 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE H&W Vineyards 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huber Farms Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Brothers Farms Inc 51 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 TheBest Claims Solutions, Inc. Phoenix AZ 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PennStar - Northampton 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Novartis GTx Durham 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenix 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Concrete Industries, Inc 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Landing of Winder 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agile Logistics Management LLC 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Living - Quaker Heights 51 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.