Aircraft manufacturing · California

General Atomics - Poway - A37

Name: General Atomics - Poway - A37 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Poway, CA · ~272 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

General Atomics - Poway - A37 runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

General Atomics - Poway - A37: 1.2 TCR = 35% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Atomics - Poway - A37 safety composite

General Atomics - Poway - A37 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers
DART rate: F 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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 - A37: 1.2 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2024

General Atomics - Poway - A37's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.2 in 2021 to 1.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 35% of ind

DART 1.6 DART
RANK #38/107
PHOTO Aircorps - Restoration
BOOK 4y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~272 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aircorps - Restoration (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aircorps - Res

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Hutchinson Aer

1.2
Textron Aviati

1.2
General Atomic

1.1

What this shows General Atomics - Poway - A37 averages 1.2 TCR (35% of the Aircraft manufacturing BLS benchmark).

General Atomics - Poway - A37 TCR series: 2021=1.2 · 2022=1 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where General Atomics - Poway - A37 falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 66% 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 #38 safest of 107 Aircraft manufacturing employers in California.

General Atomics - Poway - A37 (272 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

General Atomics - Poway - A37 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	1.6	1.6	4
2023	0.8	0.8	2
2022	1.0	0.7	3
2021	1.2	0.8	3

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	Aircorps - Restoration	BEMIDJI, MN	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hutchinson Aerospace	BURBANK, CA	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Textron Aviation - Defense	WICHITA, KS	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	General Atomics - Poway - A25	POWAY, CA	1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Olam Spices Hanford	HANFORD	272 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hot Line Construction Santa Paula	SANTA PAULA	272 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Cheesecake Factory Bakery	AGOURA HILLS	272 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Volcom LLC	COSTA MESA	272 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	Safeware Inc.	Lanham, MD	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hyatt Place Durham/ Southpoint	Durham, NC	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	DCEC	Phoenix, AZ	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Arauco North America	Grayling, MI	1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Trh 31036	Hawkinsville, GA	272 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Washington State Senate	Olympia, WA	272 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - DGR6	Grand Rapids, MI	272 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dukes Memorial Hospital	Peru, IN	272 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.