Food Service · California

Sonic Drive-In San Marcos #6390

San Marcos, CA · ~34 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sonic Drive-In San Marcos #6390 runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Service workplace, earning a grade F.

Sonic Drive-In San Marcos #6390: 6.0 TCR = 202% of Food Service BLS 3.0 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sonic Drive-In San Marcos #6390 safety composite

Sonic Drive-In San Marcos #6390 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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 San Marcos #6390: 0.0 → 15.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Sonic Drive-In San Marcos #6390's TCR rose 15.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 15.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 202% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #140/264
  • PHOTO Barro's Pizza, 40th St
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barro's Pizza, 40th St (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sonic Drive-In San Marcos #6390 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sonic Drive-In San Marcos #6390 averages 6.0 TCR (202% 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 San Marcos #6390 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.9 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=15 · BLS 3.0

Where Sonic Drive-In San Marcos #6390 falls in its industry

1,014 Food Service establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #140 safest of 264 Food Service employers in California.

Sonic Drive-In San Marcos #6390 (34 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 San Marcos #6390
Sonic Drive-In San Marcos #6390 (34 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Sonic Drive-In San Marcos #6390 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 15.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 7.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 9.9 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.6 5.6 1 0 0
2018 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · CA · San Marcos

1,014 Food Service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 139 employers in San Marcos, 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 Barro's Pizza, 40th St 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wendy's Store #324 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ono-514 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wings Over Storrs 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ardent Mills Yuba City 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Filice Farms, L.P. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexander Ranch, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE MFarms 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hunter Industries 967 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08180552 SAN MARCOS MEDICAL CENTER 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR CASMR - SAN MARCOS 615 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAN MARCOS (CASMR) 555 FTE
NAT-TCR Capitol Heights MD - Ashwood Dr 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1845 Hermitage, TN 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BJC Acute 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockingham Petroleum Coop 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE New England Gypsum Floors 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greif Bradley 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snohomish WA - PACS 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE TTI- Rock Springs, WY 34 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.