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
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.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 13.8
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2.1
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 137
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Best Friends Animal Sanctuary's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.1 industry benchmark.
Where Best Friends Animal Sanctuary falls in its industry
42 Animal welfare associations or establishmentsSafer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 13.4.
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary has an average TCR of 13.8, which is 660% of the industry average (2.1) for Animal welfare associations or leagues. This is significantly worse than average.
The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.
Trend analysis for Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
Between 2018 and 2023, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary's Total Case Rate improved from 14.3 to 12.1 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 15% decrease across 5 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 12.1, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 15.3, a spread of 3.2 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 3 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary recorded 137 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Best Friends Animal Sanctuary's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 813312 - Animal welfare associations or leagues.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
13 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 713,525 hours worked = 3.64 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (this establishment) | 13.85 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Humane societies industry avg | 2.10 | BLS IIF, NAICS 813312 |
| Utah state avg (all industries) | 4.77 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Best Friends Animal Sanctuary to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2023: 43 reportable incidents · 42 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 43 reportable incidents · 43 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 54 reportable incidents · 52 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
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 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Best Friends Animal Sanctuary's reported OSHA injury record versus its Animal welfare associations or leagues peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 660% of the Animal welfare associations or leagues benchmark, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Animal welfare associations or leagues sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.