Animal exhibits, live · Michigan

Binder Park Zoo

Battle Creek, MI · ~95 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Binder Park Zoo runs at 334% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal exhibits, live workplace, earning a grade F.

Binder Park Zoo: 10.3 TCR = 334% of Animal exhibits, live BLS 3.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Binder Park Zoo safety composite

Binder Park Zoo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2017→2021

Binder Park Zoo injury rate improved

Binder Park Zoo's TCR fell 1.3 from 7.7 in 2017 to 6.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 22.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.7 · 2018=22.2 · 2019=10.0 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Battle Creek, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 334% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO 001 Headquarters
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 001 Headquarters (0.0 TCR gap)

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Binder Park Zoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Binder Park Zoo averages 10.3 TCR (334% of the Animal exhibits, live BLS benchmark).

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

Binder Park Zoo TCR series: 2017=7.7 · 2018=22.2 · 2019=10 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=6.4 · BLS 3.1

Where Binder Park Zoo falls in its industry

174 Animal exhibits, live establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Animal exhibits, live employers in Michigan.

Binder Park Zoo (95 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 05001,0001,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Binder Park Zoo
Binder Park Zoo (95 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Binder Park Zoo has fewer employees than the Animal exhibits, live 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 Fatalities
2021 6.4 6.4 4 0 0
2020 5.4 3.6 2 1 0
2019 10.0 6.7 6 0 0
2018 22.2 8.5 5 8 0
2017 7.7 3.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · MI · Battle Creek

174 Animal exhibits, live employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 161 employers in Battle Creek, MI · 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 001 Headquarters 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wild Animal Safari INC 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoological Society of Pittsburgh DBA Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Holden Arboretum 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Michigan Freeze Pack 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan Milk Producers Association 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cargill Salt 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harbor Graphics 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Denso Manufacturing of Michigan 2,702 FTE
CITY-NEAR BRONSON BATTLE CREEK 1,530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Battle Creek HQ Corporate Office 1,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR I I Stanley Co., Inc. 729 FTE
NAT-TCR Dollar Tree (WC USX JOT) 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wagner Heights Residential 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MFG Alabama, LLC 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Deaconess 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Miller's Health Systems 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altercare Country Lawn 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE 103690 - Arlington Memorial Bridge Rehab 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Uftring Ford, Inc. 95 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, 2018, 2017. 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.