Employer · Florida

Busch Gardens (BGT)

Tampa, FL · ~3,535 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Busch Gardens (BGT) runs at 295% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Busch Gardens (BGT): 9.1 TCR = 295% of industry BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Busch Gardens (BGT) safety composite

Busch Gardens (BGT) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Busch Gardens (BGT): 9.0 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2023

Busch Gardens (BGT)'s TCR rose 1.9 from 9.0 in 2021 to 10.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713110 · Tampa, FL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 295% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #29/47
  • PHOTO Raging Waters Los An…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 390 inj
  • SIZE ~3,535 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Raging Waters Los Angeles (0.0 TCR gap)

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Busch Gardens (BGT) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Busch Gardens (BGT) averages 9.1 TCR (295% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Busch Gardens (BGT) TCR series: 2021=9 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=10.9 · BLS 3.1

Where Busch Gardens (BGT) falls in its industry

296 industry establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 47 industry employers in Florida.

Busch Gardens (BGT) (3,535 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 197 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 010,00020,00030,00040,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Busch Gardens (BGT)
Busch Gardens (BGT) (3,535 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 197 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Busch Gardens (BGT) has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 10.9 8.6 155 8 0
2022 7.5 5.3 115 2 0
2021 9.0 7.4 120 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713110 · FL · Tampa

296 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 1,659 employers in Tampa, FL · 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 Raging Waters Los Angeles 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Craigs Cruisers Grand Rapids 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sky NY LLC 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Del Valle 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE AdventHealth Tampa 3,523 FTE
STATE-SIZE Disney Destinations, LLC 3,588 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation US FL Orlando Global Inovation (1044) 3,607 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boca Raton Regional Hospital 3,449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diversified Maintenance Systems LLC 10,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tampa General Hospital 7,849 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valet Living, LLC 6,337 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST. Joseph's Hospital (5100) 5,540 FTE
NAT-TCR Dubuque Pet Food 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100557 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mountain Valley of Cascadia 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR United Ambulance Service 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City 3,534 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - CLE3 3,533 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cooper Administrative Center 3,531 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : FAT1 3,539 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. 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.