Water parks, amusement · Pennsylvania

Sandcastle

West Homestead, PA · ~119 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sandcastle runs at 281% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water parks, amusement workplace, earning a grade F.

Sandcastle: 8.7 TCR = 281% of Water parks, amusement BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sandcastle safety composite

Sandcastle scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Sandcastle: 2.5 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2024

Sandcastle's TCR rose 5.3 from 2.5 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713110 · West Homestead, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 281% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #12/17
  • PHOTO Wild Adventures
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wild Adventures (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sandcastle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sandcastle averages 8.7 TCR (281% of the Water parks, amusement BLS benchmark).

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

Sandcastle TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=13.9 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.1

Where Sandcastle falls in its industry

296 Water parks, amusement establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 17 Water parks, amusement employers in Pennsylvania.

Sandcastle (119 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 197 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 010,00020,00030,00040,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sandcastle
Sandcastle (119 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 197 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Sandcastle has fewer employees than the Water parks, amusement median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 7.8 2.6 3 0 0
2023 13.9 5.6 5 0 0
2022 10.6 8.5 5 0 0
2016 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713110 · PA · West Homestead

296 Water parks, amusement employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 6 employers in West Homestead, PA · 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 Wild Adventures 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities H420 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Soaring Eagle Water Park & Hotel 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SEA 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Youngblood Paving Inc 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nolan Painting 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edward Marc Brands, Inc. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanover Foods Center HAll 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR WHEMCO-Steel Castings, Inc (West Homestead Plant) 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Filtech Inc 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kautter Enterprises Inc. dba Colorworks 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR STORE 1 30 FTE
NAT-TCR NorthWall Builders Inc 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Marriott's Cypress Harbour 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Terrace of McHenry Rehabilitation Center 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 5645 - Omaha 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE MMC- Ladysmith 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE High Five Home Care LLC, DBA Talem Home Care 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huntington Retirement Hotel 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lester Brothers Excavating, Inc. 119 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, 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.