713120 Amusement Arcades · Florida

Busch Gardens Tampa

Tampa, FL · ~4,000 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Busch Gardens Tampa runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical 713120 Amusement Arcades workplace, earning a grade D.

Busch Gardens Tampa: 6.0 TCR = 194% of 713120 Amusement Arcades BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Busch Gardens Tampa safety composite

Busch Gardens Tampa scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−7.4

2016→2024

Busch Gardens Tampa injury rate improved

Busch Gardens Tampa's TCR fell 7.4 from 7.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.4 · 2017=8.2 · 2019=8.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713120 · Tampa, FL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 194% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO WILD ISLAND
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 461 inj
  • SIZE ~4,000 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WILD ISLAND (0.3 TCR gap)

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Busch Gardens Tampa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Busch Gardens Tampa averages 6.0 TCR (194% of the 713120 Amusement Arcades BLS benchmark).

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

Busch Gardens Tampa TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=8.2 · 2019=8.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.1

Where Busch Gardens Tampa falls in its industry

61 713120 Amusement Arcades establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 713120 Amusement Arcades employers in Florida.

Busch Gardens Tampa (4,000 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Busch Gardens Tampa
Busch Gardens Tampa (4,000 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Busch Gardens Tampa has more employees than the 713120 Amusement Arcades median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 8.4 7.4 160 1 0
2017 8.2 4.9 149 16 0
2016 7.4 4.7 152 11 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713120 · FL · Tampa

61 713120 Amusement Arcades 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 WILD ISLAND 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Station Entertainment 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dollywood 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avalon Theatre 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Palm Bay FL 2400 Palm Bay Rd 4,081 FTE
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : JAX2 4,092 FTE
STATE-SIZE SeaWorld 3,905 FTE
STATE-SIZE SeaWorld (SWF) 3,905 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 Clay County Medical Center 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rail City Casino 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nemo Plsatics, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SWB-AL 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alcon Fort Worth 3,999 FTE
NAT-SIZE Akron Campus 4,005 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : JFK8 3,988 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Motors Wentzville 3,988 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: 2024, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.