Water parks, amusement · Tennessee

Soaky Mountain Waterpark

Sevierville, TN · ~237 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Soaky Mountain Waterpark runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water parks, amusement workplace, earning a grade D.

Soaky Mountain Waterpark: 5.7 TCR = 183% of Water parks, amusement BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Soaky Mountain Waterpark safety composite

Soaky Mountain Waterpark scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2020→2024

Soaky Mountain Waterpark injury rate improved

Soaky Mountain Waterpark's TCR fell 4.8 from 9.1 in 2020 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=9.1 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713110 · Sevierville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 183% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO Galveston Island His…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~237 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier (0.0 TCR gap)

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Soaky Mountain Waterpark in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Soaky Mountain Waterpark averages 5.7 TCR (183% of the Water parks, amusement BLS benchmark).

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

Soaky Mountain Waterpark TCR series: 2020=9.1 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.1

Where Soaky Mountain Waterpark falls in its industry

296 Water parks, amusement establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 11 Water parks, amusement employers in Tennessee.

Soaky Mountain Waterpark (237 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Soaky Mountain Waterpark
Soaky Mountain Waterpark (237 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 197 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Soaky Mountain Waterpark has more employees than the Water parks, amusement median and a lower 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 4.3 1.7 4 1 0
2023 2.7 0.9 3 0 0
2022 6.6 5.6 7 0 0
2020 9.1 5.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713110 · TN · Sevierville

296 Water parks, amusement employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 66 employers in Sevierville, TN · 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 Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sky NJ LLC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hershey Entertainment Complex 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Prix Karting Columbus LLC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bell & Associates Construction, LLC 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jones Plastic & Engineering d/b/a Camden Plastics 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cupples J & J Co. Inc 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmann Automotive USA, Inc - TN 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilderness at the Smokies 582 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charles Blalock & Sons, Inc. 561 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Sevierville 544 FTE
CITY-NEAR LECONTE MEDICAL CENTER 481 FTE
NAT-TCR County Waste LLC 8 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Chatfield 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sparr Heights Estates Senior Living 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Agriculture Weights Measures 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE El Paso Cpa 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hnl Daniel K. Inouye International 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thrive Market Reno Fulfillment Center 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE New York Frozen Foods 237 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.