Aircraft manufacturing · California

General Atomics - Poway - A39

Name: General Atomics - Poway - A39 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Poway, CA · ~72 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

General Atomics - Poway - A39 runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

General Atomics - Poway - A39: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Atomics - Poway - A39 safety composite

General Atomics - Poway - A39 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

General Atomics - Poway - A39: 2.8 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

General Atomics - Poway - A39's TCR rose 1.4 from 2.8 in 2021 to 4.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #58/107
PHOTO General Atomics - Sp…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Atomics - Spanish Fork - AS01 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Applied Aerosp

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Meggitt

1.8
NGDS-B209

1.8

What this shows General Atomics - Poway - A39 averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Aircraft manufacturing BLS benchmark).

General Atomics - Poway - A39 TCR series: 2021=2.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where General Atomics - Poway - A39 falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 107 Aircraft manufacturing employers in California.

General Atomics - Poway - A39 (72 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

General Atomics - Poway - A39 has fewer 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
2024	4.2	0.0	0	2
2023	0.0	0.0	0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0	0
2021	2.8	1.4	2	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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	General Atomics - Spanish Fork - AS01	SPANISH FORK, UT	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Applied Aerospace Structures Corp.	STOCKTON, CA	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Meggitt	TROY, IN	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NGDS-B209	WHITEMAN AFB, MO	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Monterey Pacific, LLC	SOLEDAD	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Arts Ranch	OXNARD	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House	LOS ANGELES	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Greg Hooker dba Diamond H Dairy	CHOWCHILLA	72 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	General Atomics - Spanish Fork - AS01	Spanish Fork, UT	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	083 Lci	Elkhart, IN	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	PARI Respiratory Equipment	Midlothian, VA	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Crabtree Automotive, Inc.	Albany, OR	1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	General Atomics - Cryotech	Fort Madison, IA	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rutherford Supply	Richmond, VA	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Material Sciences Corporation	Elk Grove Village, IL	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Southern Oregon University	Ashland, OR	72 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.