Food Service · California

Sonic Drive-In Santee #5995

Santee, CA · ~37 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sonic Drive-In Santee #5995 runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Service workplace, earning a grade F.

Sonic Drive-In Santee #5995: 7.0 TCR = 235% of Food Service BLS 3.0 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sonic Drive-In Santee #5995 safety composite

Sonic Drive-In Santee #5995 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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 Santee #5995: 0.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2023

Sonic Drive-In Santee #5995's TCR rose 5.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 235% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #158/264
  • PHOTO Ono-042
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ono-042 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sonic Drive-In Santee #5995 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sonic Drive-In Santee #5995 averages 7.0 TCR (235% 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 Santee #5995 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=9.8 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=15.1 · 2023=5.5 · BLS 3.0

Where Sonic Drive-In Santee #5995 falls in its industry

1,014 Food Service establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #158 safest of 264 Food Service employers in California.

Sonic Drive-In Santee #5995 (37 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Santee #5995
Sonic Drive-In Santee #5995 (37 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Sonic Drive-In Santee #5995 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 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2022 15.1 0.0 3 0 0
2021 9.2 0.0 2 0 0
2020 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2019 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2018 9.8 9.8 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · CA · Santee

1,014 Food Service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 74 employers in Santee, 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 Ono-042 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roy Rogers Family Restaurants - Ranson 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huntington Beach 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dairy Cheer Chloe 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE BULLSEYE FARMS LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE KP Spraying LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN - 01 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kimberlina Shop 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 595 1,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA223 384 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0403 - SANTEE CA WHSE 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR SRS Santee - 8701 Cuyamaca Street 280 FTE
NAT-TCR Indy East IN 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AJs 090 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Becon, Inc 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Blake Hershberger Enterprises, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE SGS Retail - Umatilla 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville FL - Longleaf St 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bounty Bev 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boston 37 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.