amusement arcades · Texas

Kemah Boardwalk

Kemah, TX · ~364 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kemah Boardwalk runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical amusement arcades workplace, earning a grade C.

Kemah Boardwalk: 3.1 TCR = 101% of amusement arcades BLS 3.1 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kemah Boardwalk safety composite

Kemah Boardwalk scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kemah Boardwalk: 3.5 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

Kemah Boardwalk's TCR rose 1.4 from 3.5 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713120 · Kemah, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 101% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Busch Gardens Willia…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~364 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Busch Gardens Williamsburg (0.2 TCR gap)

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Kemah Boardwalk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kemah Boardwalk averages 3.1 TCR (101% of the amusement arcades BLS benchmark).

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

Kemah Boardwalk TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.1

Where Kemah Boardwalk falls in its industry

61 amusement arcades establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 amusement arcades employers in Texas.

Kemah Boardwalk (364 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Kemah Boardwalk
Kemah Boardwalk (364 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Kemah Boardwalk has more employees than the amusement arcades median and a lower 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 4.9 3.3 9 0 0
2023 3.2 2.1 6 0 0
2022 2.2 1.1 4 0 0
2021 3.8 3.3 7 0 0
2020 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2019 1.2 0.8 3 0 0
2018 4.3 3.4 9 1 0
2017 4.3 3.8 9 1 0
2016 3.5 1.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713120 · TX · Kemah

61 amusement arcades employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 14 employers in Kemah, TX · 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 Busch Gardens Williamsburg 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stern Pinball, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elitch Gardens 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBC Entertainment of Minnesota, Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Texas Harvest Kitchen 364 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industrial Manufacturing Forging 364 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manufacturing 364 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1 364 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3298 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3298 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR Refractory Construction Services 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1010 LAWRENCE RD 114 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Young Harris College 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Taylor Transitional Hospital 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office - 01 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hinspergers Poly Industries 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corval Group 364 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kissick Construction 364 FTE
NAT-SIZE Howard County Kinsey Youth Center 364 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plymouth 364 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.