Fast-food restaurants · Kansas

Sonic

Prairie Village, KS · ~716 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sonic runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fast-food restaurants workplace, earning a grade C.

Sonic: 3.5 TCR = 117% of Fast-food restaurants BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sonic safety composite

Sonic scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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)
C 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−0.7

2017→2018

Sonic injury rate improved

Sonic's TCR fell 0.7 from 3.8 in 2017 to 3.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.8 · 2018=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Prairie Village, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 117% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #8/26
  • PHOTO Ono-014
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~716 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ono-014 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sonic in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sonic averages 3.5 TCR (117% of the Fast-food restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

Sonic TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2018=3.2 · BLS 3.0

Where Sonic falls in its industry

1,014 Fast-food restaurants establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 26 Fast-food restaurants employers in Kansas.

Sonic (716 employees, TCR 3.5) 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
Sonic (716 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Sonic has more employees than the Fast-food restaurants 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
2018 3.2 1.4 14 0 0
2017 3.8 0.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · KS · Prairie Village

1,014 Fast-food restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 10 employers in Prairie Village, KS · 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-014 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 44015 - KFC - HL 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doc Five, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR D'Amico and Sons- Golden Valley 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amarr Entrematic 717 FTE
STATE-SIZE TVH Parts Co. America's HQ 719 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cargill Protein Wichita Douglas Office 712 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wichita KS Main 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Door Grill 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Village - Main Store 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hen House #22 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2248-62018 129 FTE
NAT-TCR LiDestri Lee Rd. South 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Senior Health-First Coast, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Penske : 4729-00 Cardinal/Houston, TX 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Circle Transportation Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mops Bridgecrest 716 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adient US LLC. 716 FTE
NAT-SIZE II Stanley Company, Inc. 716 FTE
NAT-SIZE 335978-Greater Newark Nj P&Dc 716 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: 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.