Employer · Ohio

Great Wolf Lodge

Sandusky, OH · ~297 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Wolf Lodge runs at 258% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Great Wolf Lodge: 7.8 TCR = 258% of industry BLS 3.0 · 4y 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 22%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−3.6

2018→2024

Great Wolf Lodge injury rate improved

Great Wolf Lodge's TCR fell 3.6 from 8.8 in 2018 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.8 · 2021=12.0 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 721110 · Sandusky, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 258% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #194/212
  • PHOTO CHATX - The Kinley S…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 63 inj
  • SIZE ~297 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CHATX - The Kinley Southside (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 7.8 TCR (258% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Great Wolf Lodge TCR series: 2018=8.8 · 2021=12 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.0

Where Great Wolf Lodge falls in its industry

9,342 industry establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #194 safest of 212 industry employers in Ohio.

Great Wolf Lodge (297 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 (297 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 industry 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 5.1 5.1 12 0 0
2023 5.1 4.7 12 0 0
2021 12.0 9.0 21 3 0
2018 8.8 6.3 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

721110 · OH · Sandusky

9,342 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 101 employers in Sandusky, OH · 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 CHATX - The Kinley Southside 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hilton Chicago Magnificent Mile Suites 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Francisco (GH) 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swiss Chalet Hotel & Suites 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Autoliv Nissin Brake America 297 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1519 297 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1443 297 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DWO1 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedar Point 2,836 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventra Sandusky 1,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAIN-FRMC1-MAIN CAMPUS 1,834 FTE
CITY-NEAR LMN Development 1,048 FTE
NAT-TCR Atlantic General Hospital 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trale Manomet, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Deer Creek Elementary 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Thermal Engineering Corporation 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mitsubishi Electric US Inc.-10 297 FTE
NAT-SIZE CS Wholesale Grocers : Plant City, FL (GDC) 297 FTE
NAT-SIZE Divine Home Care 297 FTE
NAT-SIZE 20 - Baton Rouge 297 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, 2021, 2018. 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.