Food Service · California

Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483

Riverside, CA · ~44 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483 runs at 213% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Service workplace, earning a grade F.

Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483: 6.4 TCR = 213% of Food Service BLS 3.0 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483 safety composite

Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483: 4.1 → 19.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 19.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483's TCR rose 14.9 from 4.1 in 2017 to 19.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Riverside, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 213% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #147/264
  • PHOTO Taco Bell - #28261
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Taco Bell - #28261 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483 averages 6.4 TCR (213% 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 Riverside #6483 TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=4 · 2021=0 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=19 · BLS 3.0

Where Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483 falls in its industry

1,014 Food Service establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #147 safest of 264 Food Service employers in California.

Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483 (44 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 Riverside #6483
Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483 (44 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Sonic Drive-In Riverside #6483 has more employees than the Food Service 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
2023 19.0 0.0 4 0 0
2022 8.4 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2019 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2018 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2017 4.1 4.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · CA · Riverside

1,014 Food Service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 536 employers in Riverside, 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 Taco Bell - #28261 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Domino's Pizza - Hickam 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Legacy Wendy's-206 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RAISING CANE'S CHICKEN FINGERS C178 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Firebaugh 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boutonnet Farms 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Coast Vineyards 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE FESTIVAL FARMS 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Riverside 8,676 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-21 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Community Hospital 2,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08681351 RIVERSIDE MED CENTER 2,349 FTE
NAT-TCR Homeland 856 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Markham 130 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson Express Transportation LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE AWP-Norton 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Wekiwa Springs 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universal Recycling Technologies - Texas 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Long Meadow Labor, LLC 44 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.