Boat yards (i.e., boat manufacturing facilities) · Florida

Merritt Island Boat Works

Merritt Island, FL · ~185 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merritt Island Boat Works runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Boat yards (i.e., boat manufacturing facilities) workplace, earning a grade D.

Merritt Island Boat Works: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Boat yards (i.e., boat manufacturing facilities) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merritt Island Boat Works safety composite

Merritt Island Boat Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Merritt Island Boat Works: 4.4 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2019

Merritt Island Boat Works's TCR rose 2.3 from 4.4 in 2018 to 6.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336612 · Merritt Island, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #34/59
  • PHOTO Sabre Corporation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sabre Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merritt Island Boat Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merritt Island Boat Works averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Boat yards (i.e., boat manufacturing facilities) BLS benchmark).

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

Merritt Island Boat Works TCR series: 2018=4.4 · 2019=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Merritt Island Boat Works falls in its industry

249 Boat yards (i.e., boat manufac establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 59 Boat yards (i.e., boat manufac employers in Florida.

Merritt Island Boat Works (185 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merritt Island Boat Works
Merritt Island Boat Works (185 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Merritt Island Boat Works has more employees than the Boat yards (i.e., boat manufacturing fac median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2019 6.7 4.9 11 0 0
2018 4.4 2.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336612 · FL · Merritt Island

249 Boat yards (i.e., boat manufacturing facilities) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 43 employers in Merritt Island, 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 Sabre Corporation 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boston Whaler - Flagler 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Hinckley Company 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manitou 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plaza Construction Florida 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Structures Inc 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aragon Pools & Spas, LLC Main Office 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cutrale Citrus Leesburg 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Origin Florida, LLC 1,747 FTE
CITY-NEAR PAE BOSS Contract 606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sea Ray Merritt Island Complex 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 771 357 FTE
NAT-TCR Sentara Woodview 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR GLC Merrillville 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RELCO Locomotives, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Max & Erma's Erie 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 314 - Turnersville 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE 101 - Menomonee Falls 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shop Rite of Watchung 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blake Equipment 185 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: 2019, 2018. 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.