Animal welfare associations or leagues · Utah

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary

Kanab, UT · ~374 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary runs at 660% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal welfare associations or leagues workplace, earning a grade F.

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary: 13.8 TCR = 660% of Animal welfare associations or leagues BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary safety composite

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 13.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2018→2023

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary injury rate improved

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary's TCR fell 2.2 from 14.3 in 2018 to 12.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=14.3 · 2022=15.3 · 2023=12.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 813312 · Kanab, UT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 660% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK P46
  • PHOTO Sacramento SPCA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 137 inj
  • SIZE ~374 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sacramento SPCA (0.4 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Utah employers → · Look up another →

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Friends Animal Sanctuary averages 13.8 TCR (660% of the Animal welfare associations or leagues BLS benchmark).

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

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary TCR series: 2018=14.3 · 2022=15.3 · 2023=12.1 · BLS 2.1

Where Best Friends Animal Sanctuary falls in its industry

39 Animal welfare associations or establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 13.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (374 employees, TCR 13.8) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 13.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (374 employees, TCR 13.8) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 13.4

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary has more employees than the Animal welfare associations or leagues median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 13.4. 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
2023 12.1 3.6 42 1 0
2022 15.3 3.9 43 0 0
2018 14.3 1.9 52 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

813312 · UT · Kanab

39 Animal welfare associations or leagues employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,861 rated employers in Utah with headcount on file · 5 employers in Kanab, UT · 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 Sacramento SPCA 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Animal Humane Society - GV 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern California Mountains Foundation 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conservation Legacy 14.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Intermountain Power Service Corp. 375 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utah Region 375 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vulcraft Utah 375 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3620 375 FTE
CITY-NEAR Best Friends Animal Society 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stampin' Up! Kanab 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Denny's Wigwam 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parry Lodge 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Custom Plumbing, Inc 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0005-0005-02462 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Suddath Relocation Systems of California, Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marriott St. Louis Grand 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacobs Tidewater Operations Group 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indianapolis Bakery 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Parkway Infrastructure, LLC 374 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: 2023, 2022, 2018. 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.