Animal shelters · Utah

Best Friends Animal Society - Utah

Salt Lake City, UT · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.3
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Friends Animal Society - Utah runs at 1110% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal shelters workplace, earning a grade F.

Best Friends Animal Society - Utah: 23.3 TCR = 1110% of Animal shelters BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Friends Animal Society - Utah safety composite

Best Friends Animal Society - Utah scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−11.7

2020→2021

Best Friends Animal Society - Utah injury rate improved

Best Friends Animal Society - Utah's TCR fell 11.7 from 29.1 in 2020 to 17.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 29.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=29.1 · 2021=17.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812910 · Salt Lake City, UT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.3 · 1110% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P12
  • PHOTO Aiken County Animal …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aiken County Animal Shelter (0.4 TCR gap)

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Best Friends Animal Society - Utah in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Friends Animal Society - Utah averages 23.3 TCR (1110% of the Animal shelters BLS benchmark).

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

Best Friends Animal Society - Utah TCR series: 2020=29.1 · 2021=17.5 · BLS 2.1

Where Best Friends Animal Society - Utah falls in its industry

65 Animal shelters establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 15.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Best Friends Animal Society - Utah (33 employees, TCR 23.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 15.8 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 0200400600 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Best Friends Animal Society - Utah
Best Friends Animal Society - Utah (33 employees, TCR 23.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 15.8

Best Friends Animal Society - Utah has fewer employees than the Animal shelters median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 15.8. 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
2021 17.5 0.0 6 0 0
2020 29.1 20.4 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812910 · UT · Salt Lake City

65 Animal shelters employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,861 rated employers in Utah with headcount on file · 998 employers in Salt Lake City, 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 Aiken County Animal Shelter 23.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Resort for Pets 22.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WAG HOTELS - Santa Clara 24.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Animal Care and Regulation 22.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Roosevelt Field Office 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Richmond American Homes of Utah 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beehive Buildings Holdings Inc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Airlines Expansion Project 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - SLC 4,843 FTE
CITY-NEAR PC - Primary Childrens Hospital 3,254 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3 Technologies, Inc. 3,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salt Lake City Terminal 2,766 FTE
NAT-TCR Nashville Fire Department 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZMED 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedarbrook 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0606 Edgewater 23.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Landsberg Atlanta 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE McDermaid Roofing & Insulating Co. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gresham Fire & Emergency Services 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Election Commission 33 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. 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.