Food Service · California

Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007

Vista, CA · ~33 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007 runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food Service workplace, earning a grade D.

Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007: 4.6 TCR = 152% of Food Service BLS 3.0 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007 safety composite

Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−3.2

2017→2023

Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007 injury rate improved

Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007's TCR fell 3.2 from 3.2 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.2 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 152% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #107/264
  • PHOTO Eden Prairie
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eden Prairie (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007 averages 4.6 TCR (152% 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 Vista #6007 TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007 falls in its industry

1,014 Food Service establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #107 safest of 264 Food Service employers in California.

Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007 (33 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Vista #6007
Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007 (33 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Sonic Drive-In Vista #6007 has fewer 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 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 9.3 0.0 2 0 0
2020 7.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.6 6.6 2 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · CA · Vista

1,014 Food Service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 197 employers in Vista, 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 Eden Prairie 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DQ Training Restaurants, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR VITALIGENT LLC Park Place Center Sacramento 508 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lex Ave 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tutti Frutti Farms 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE EL CENTRO 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE BULLSEYE FARMS 18 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Vista Farms LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR 05-CACTUS 1,065 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cactus - 05 949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista HQ 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR 01-CORP 522 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 421 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Peter Cremer North America - ST 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR VanSantis Development Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Medicalodges Eudora 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Classic Stone 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homeland 851 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pao Milho III LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE SGS Retail - Othello 33 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.