Food Service · California

Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378

San Diego, CA · ~43 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378 runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Food Service workplace, earning a grade C.

Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378: 2.6 TCR = 87% of Food Service BLS 3.0 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378 safety composite

Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.6

2017→2023

Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378 injury rate improved

Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378's TCR fell 4.6 from 4.6 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · San Diego, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 87% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #49/264
  • PHOTO 82 Court Corp
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 82 Court Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378 averages 2.6 TCR (87% of the Food Service BLS benchmark).

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

Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378 TCR series: 2017=4.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378 falls in its industry

1,014 Food Service establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 264 Food Service employers in California.

Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378 (43 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378
Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378 (43 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Sonic Drive-In Kearny Mesa #6378 has more employees than the Food Service median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2019 9.4 9.4 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.6 4.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · CA · San Diego

1,014 Food Service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 82 Court Corp 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burger King 24571 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duluth 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4399 - Taco Bell 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robert & Sandra Garcia Farming Partnership 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARVIN ADMINISTRATION 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald W Beeman 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE KG Vineyard Management, LLC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Mastria Subaru 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lahey Medical Center 67 So Bedford St 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TX010 Acme Gypsum 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunrise Produce LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5895 - Wilmington-DE 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunshine Home Health Services 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Visiting Angels Bethlehem 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Sequoia Assisted Living 43 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.