Humane societies · Utah

Best Friends Animal Society

Kanab, UT · ~421 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Friends Animal Society runs at 568% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Humane societies workplace, earning a grade F.

Best Friends Animal Society: 11.9 TCR = 568% of Humane societies BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Friends Animal Society safety composite

Best Friends Animal Society scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 11.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Best Friends Animal Society: 9.9 → 18.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 18.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2021

Best Friends Animal Society's TCR rose 8.2 from 9.9 in 2019 to 18.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 568% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK P56
  • PHOTO Dumb Friends League …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 94 inj
  • SIZE ~421 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dumb Friends League - Solutions Veterinary Hospital (0.1 TCR gap)

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Best Friends Animal Society in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Friends Animal Society averages 11.9 TCR (568% of the Humane societies BLS benchmark).

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

Best Friends Animal Society TCR series: 2019=9.9 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=18.1 · BLS 2.1

Where Best Friends Animal Society falls in its industry

39 Humane societies establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 13.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Best Friends Animal Society (421 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 Society
Best Friends Animal Society (421 employees, TCR 11.9) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 13.4

Best Friends Animal Society has more employees than the Humane societies median and a lower 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
2021 18.1 3.2 37 3 0
2020 7.8 1.4 22 0 0
2019 9.9 1.7 35 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

813312 · UT · Kanab

39 Humane societies 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 Dumb Friends League - Solutions Veterinary Hospital 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle Humane 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm Fresh Rhode Island - 10 Sims Avenue 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kentucky Humane Society Main Campus 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beehive Clothing Salt Lake 421 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2511 421 FTE
STATE-SIZE 497795-SALT LAKE CITY ASF 422 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sure Steel Inc 419 FTE
CITY-NEAR Best Friends Animal Sanctuary 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stampin' Up! Kanab 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Denny's Wigwam 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parry Lodge 25 FTE
NAT-TCR KSP 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Partridge House 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR LAX - Maintenance 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Westview Acres 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Core Molding Technologies, Inc. 421 FTE
NAT-SIZE LSC Communications -1005 Commercial Drive 421 FTE
NAT-SIZE 113077-Ft Myers Fl P&Dc 421 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bay City Components 421 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.