Drive-in restaurants · California

Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431

San Diego, CA · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431 runs at 397% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drive-in restaurants workplace, earning a grade F.

Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431: 11.9 TCR = 397% of Drive-in restaurants BLS 3.0 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431 safety composite

Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−2.7

2017→2020

Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431 injury rate improved

Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431's TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 37.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.7 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=37.6 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 397% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #217/264
  • PHOTO ELEPHANTS ON CORBETT
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ELEPHANTS ON CORBETT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431 averages 11.9 TCR (397% of the Drive-in restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431 TCR series: 2017=2.7 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=37.6 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431 falls in its industry

1,014 Drive-in restaurants establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #217 safest of 264 Drive-in restaurants employers in California.

Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431 (25 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 Pacific Beach #6431
Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431 (25 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Sonic Drive-In Pacific Beach #6431 has fewer employees than the Drive-in restaurants median and a higher 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 37.6 37.6 3 1 0
2018 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2017 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · CA · San Diego

1,014 Drive-in restaurants 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 ELEPHANTS ON CORBETT 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meson Sandwiches 020 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ono-003 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blaze Pizza - #1158 11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conservation Farms Ranches 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE GM Ag Services, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm Shop 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dougherty Brothers 25 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 166 Quickchek Food Store 166 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vancouver Police Headquarters 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR United Enterprise, LLC 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross store 750 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1372 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1878 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1757 25 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: 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.