Assisted Living · Florida

Meridian At Waterways

Fort Lauderdale, FL · ~87 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meridian At Waterways runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Assisted Living workplace, earning a grade D.

Meridian At Waterways: 6.6 TCR = 174% of Assisted Living BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meridian At Waterways safety composite

Meridian At Waterways scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−8.9

2019→2022

Meridian At Waterways injury rate improved

Meridian At Waterways's TCR fell 8.9 from 11.9 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=11.9 · 2020=4.0 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Fort Lauderdale, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 174% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #192/396
  • PHOTO Brookdale Eden
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brookdale Eden (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meridian At Waterways in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meridian At Waterways averages 6.6 TCR (174% of the Assisted Living BLS benchmark).

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

Meridian At Waterways TCR series: 2019=11.9 · 2020=4 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=3 · BLS 3.8

Where Meridian At Waterways falls in its industry

6,510 Assisted Living establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #192 safest of 396 Assisted Living employers in Florida.

Meridian At Waterways (87 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Meridian At Waterways
Meridian At Waterways (87 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Meridian At Waterways has more employees than the Assisted Living median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2022 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2021 7.5 3.0 4 1 0
2020 4.0 2.7 3 0 0
2019 11.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · FL · Fort Lauderdale

6,510 Assisted Living employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 374 employers in Fort Lauderdale, 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 Brookdale Eden 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canoe Brook BA, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Azura Oak Creek 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edgewood Heights 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Potato PH 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Care Florida LLC.-Arcadia 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services Lake City 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal River Nuclear Plant 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Airlines - FLL 3,426 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Cross Long Term Care Inc 2,979 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Lauderdale (FLL) 2,703 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hotwire Communications - Cypress 953 FTE
NAT-TCR Vigor Works, LLC - Vancouver 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pace 2 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1006 - Selma Tx Whse 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 0762 - Lancaster Ca Whse 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Builders Sales & Service Company 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100878 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Latexco, LLC 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE IAD-SCS 87 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.