Hotels (except casino hotels) · Michigan

Great Wolf Lodge

Traverse City, MI · ~335 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Wolf Lodge runs at 263% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hotels (except casino hotels) workplace, earning a grade F.

Great Wolf Lodge: 7.9 TCR = 263% of Hotels (except casino hotels) BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Wolf Lodge safety composite

Great Wolf Lodge scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−0.4

2023→2024

Great Wolf Lodge injury rate improved

Great Wolf Lodge's TCR fell 0.4 from 8.1 in 2023 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.1 · 2024=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 721110 · Traverse City, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 263% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #124/144
  • PHOTO Residence Inn
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~335 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Residence Inn (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Wolf Lodge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Wolf Lodge averages 7.9 TCR (263% of the Hotels (except casino hotels) BLS benchmark).

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

Great Wolf Lodge TCR series: 2023=8.1 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.0

Where Great Wolf Lodge falls in its industry

9,342 Hotels (except casino hotels) establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #124 safest of 144 Hotels (except casino hotels) employers in Michigan.

Great Wolf Lodge (335 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Wolf Lodge
Great Wolf Lodge (335 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Great Wolf Lodge has more employees than the Hotels (except casino hotels) 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
2024 7.7 7.2 18 0 0
2023 8.1 8.1 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

721110 · MI · Traverse City

9,342 Hotels (except casino hotels) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 197 employers in Traverse City, MI · 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 Residence Inn 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Courtyard Dayton Beavercreek 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Key West Historic Inns 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2401-Hyatt Place Bloomington 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Country Fresh - G Rapids - 2555 Buchanan 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Grand Rapids 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shaheen Chevrolet, Inc. 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2873 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Medical Center 3,845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Healthcare 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 569 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Anaheim Memorial Med Ctr Hsk 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR S.J. Distributors LLC-Gilroy Warehouse 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Treasure Coast 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Unity Groves Corporation 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oliver Sprinkler Co Inc 335 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thirty Inc 335 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Wipes International 335 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baptist Memorial Hospital - Union City 335 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, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.