Nautical systems and instruments manufacturing · California

Sonatech LLC

Santa Barbara, CA · ~73 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sonatech LLC runs at 211% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nautical systems and instruments manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Sonatech LLC: 7.0 TCR = 211% of Nautical systems and instruments manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sonatech LLC safety composite

Sonatech LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Sonatech LLC held a steady TCR band

Sonatech LLC's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.8 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=15.3 · 2023=16.8 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334511 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 211% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #44/45
  • PHOTO Design West Technolo…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Design West Technologies inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Sonatech LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sonatech LLC averages 7.0 TCR (211% of the Nautical systems and instruments manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sonatech LLC TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=15.3 · 2023=16.8 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sonatech LLC falls in its industry

388 Nautical systems and instrume establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 45 Nautical systems and instrume employers in California.

Sonatech LLC (73 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 207 employees and a TCR of 0.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sonatech LLC
Sonatech LLC (73 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 207 employees and a TCR of 0.7

Sonatech LLC has fewer employees than the Nautical systems and instruments manufa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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 4.2 4.2 4 0 0
2023 16.8 16.8 2 11 0
2022 15.3 15.3 3 7 0
2021 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334511 · CA · Santa Barbara

388 Nautical systems and instruments manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 173 employers in Santa Barbara, 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 Design West Technologies inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DPI LABS, INC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Texas prod Corp 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HNCGB03 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Columbia 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Location 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE P-R Farms Inc/Palomate Inc 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Barbara 10,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 3,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Barbara 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Green Santa Barbara 674 FTE
NAT-TCR Columbia 032 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kountry Boys Sausage 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Anderson Hay & Grain Co., Inc. - Ellensburg, WA 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CIT Relay & Switch 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Brighton Ford 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ennis Mat 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raleigh HQ 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE 50032 - Capstone Kroger Fountain 73 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, 2020, 2017. 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.