Aircraft manufacturing · California

Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, CA · ~91 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz safety composite

Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz: 6.6 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.9× in 2024

Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz's TCR rose 5.4 from 6.6 in 2021 to 12.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336411 · Santa Cruz, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 12.0 DART
  • RANK #97/107
  • PHOTO NGTS-D352
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NGTS-D352 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Aircraft manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz TCR series: 2021=6.6 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=12 · BLS 3.3

Where Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #97 safest of 107 Aircraft manufacturing employers in California.

Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz (91 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz
Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz (91 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Joby Aviation 1000 Bonny Doon Santa Cruz 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 Fatalities
2024 12.0 12.0 4 0 0
2023 5.4 5.4 5 0 0
2022 1.3 0.6 2 0 0
2021 6.6 5.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336411 · CA · Santa Cruz

390 Aircraft manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 133 employers in Santa Cruz, 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 NGTS-D352 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The ServiCenter, Inc. dba Valair Aviation 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Landing Gear Technologies, LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing Solutions, Inc. 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE CDK Agriculture, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belridge 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Micro Paradox 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE CFS, LP. 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Cruz 8,081 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030253 1,732 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health Dominican Hospital 1,652 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030253-253001 DOMINICAN HOSPITAL SANTA CRUZ 1,464 FTE
NAT-TCR Arctic Fox 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - IND1 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bud Manufacturing Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ed Herrington Inc - Hillsdale 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DBK6 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE MBC Metairie LLC 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Kalamazoo-City Hall 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE PF MPW SNF Ops, LLC 91 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.