Zoos · Louisiana

Audubon Zoo

Name: Audubon Zoo Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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New Orleans, LA · ~381 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.3
Avg TCR: 3.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Audubon Zoo runs at 234% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zoos workplace, earning a grade F.

Audubon Zoo: 7.3 TCR = 234% of Zoos BLS 3.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Audubon Zoo safety composite

Audubon Zoo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 7.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Audubon Zoo: 5.9 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Audubon Zoo's TCR rose 4.9 from 5.9 in 2018 to 10.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · New Orleans, LA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 234% of ind

DART 5.8 DART
RANK #3/4
PHOTO Prospect Park Zoo
BOOK 5y book
INJ 87 inj
SIZE ~381 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prospect Park Zoo (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.3
Prospect Park

7.3
West Michigan

7.3
John Ball Zoo

7.2
Cheekwood Bota

7.2

What this shows Audubon Zoo averages 7.3 TCR (234% of the Zoos BLS benchmark).

Audubon Zoo TCR series: 2018=5.9 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=6.5 · 2022=6.2 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 3.1

Where Audubon Zoo falls in its industry

174 Zoos establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Zoos employers in Louisiana.

Audubon Zoo (381 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Audubon Zoo has more employees than the Zoos 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
2024	10.8	5.8	26	4
2022	6.2	3.3	13	4
2020	6.5	5.1	12	2
2019	6.9	1.0	21	6
2018	5.9	4.2	15	6

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · LA · New Orleans

174 Zoos employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 450 employers in New Orleans, LA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Prospect Park Zoo	BROOKLYN, NY	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	John Ball Zoo	GRAND RAPIDS, MI	7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	West Michigan Horticultural Society	GRAND RAPIDS, MI	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art	NASHVILLE, TN	7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sabre Building Systems	BOSSIER CITY	381 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BOLLINGER HOUMA SHIPYARDS	HOUMA	381 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 839	BATON ROUGE	381 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 2665	SLIDELL	381 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HARAHAN COKE	New Orleans	8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HARAHAN PACKERS	New Orleans	8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LCMC Health	New Orleans	8,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HARAHAN	New Orleans	4,395 FTE
NAT-TCR	Store 002	Asheville, NC	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Indiana State Hospital Evansville	Evansville, IN	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Solitude Mountain Ski Resort	Brighton, UT	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	ITC Services- Pasco	Pasco, WA	7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Conair LLC	Glendale, AZ	381 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ETS Express, LLC - CA	Oxnard, CA	381 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Edwards Electrical & Mechanical	Indianapolis, IN	381 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Conserve Landcare	Thousand Palms, CA	381 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, 2022, 2020, 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.