Animal exhibits, live · Ohio

Akron Zoo

Akron, OH · ~188 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Akron Zoo runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal exhibits, live workplace, earning a grade F.

Akron Zoo: 7.5 TCR = 241% of Animal exhibits, live BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Akron Zoo safety composite

Akron Zoo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2016→2018

Akron Zoo injury rate improved

Akron Zoo's TCR fell 2.3 from 8.8 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.8 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Akron, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 241% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO OGF
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OGF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Akron Zoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Akron Zoo averages 7.5 TCR (241% of the Animal exhibits, live BLS benchmark).

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

Akron Zoo TCR series: 2016=8.8 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=6.5 · BLS 3.1

Where Akron Zoo falls in its industry

174 Animal exhibits, live establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Animal exhibits, live employers in Ohio.

Akron Zoo (188 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 05001,0001,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Akron Zoo
Akron Zoo (188 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Akron Zoo has more employees than the Animal exhibits, live median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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
2018 6.5 2.1 7 2 0
2017 7.2 2.9 9 1 0
2016 8.8 6.1 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · OH · Akron

174 Animal exhibits, live employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, OH · 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 OGF 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Michigan Horticultural Society 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Audubon Zoo 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prospect Park Zoo 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE WAI - Construction Group, LLC 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Ruhlin Company 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE BCU Electric 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE LIMA OH 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR El Paso (Txelp) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Cruces (Nmlas) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller's Bakery Inc.-Steven Road 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stinar 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bingo 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ventura Center (Caven) 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schuyler Ridge 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manor Care Health Services - Richmond 188 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: 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.