Animal exhibits, live · Florida

Brevard Zoo

Melbourne, FL · ~227 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brevard Zoo runs at 378% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal exhibits, live workplace, earning a grade F.

Brevard Zoo: 11.7 TCR = 378% of Animal exhibits, live BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brevard Zoo safety composite

Brevard Zoo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Brevard Zoo: 6.1 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2024

Brevard Zoo's TCR rose 5.8 from 6.1 in 2017 to 11.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Melbourne, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 378% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Mystic Aquarium/Ocea…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~227 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mystic Aquarium/Ocean Blue Catering (0.1 TCR gap)

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Brevard Zoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brevard Zoo averages 11.7 TCR (378% of the Animal exhibits, live BLS benchmark).

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

Brevard Zoo TCR series: 2017=6.1 · 2022=13.6 · 2023=15.3 · 2024=11.9 · BLS 3.1

Where Brevard Zoo falls in its industry

174 Animal exhibits, live establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Animal exhibits, live employers in Florida.

Brevard Zoo (227 employees, TCR 11.7) 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 Brevard Zoo
Brevard Zoo (227 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Brevard Zoo has more 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
2024 11.9 3.6 22 1 0
2023 15.3 8.4 18 2 0
2022 13.6 6.0 17 1 0
2017 6.1 2.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · FL · Melbourne

174 Animal exhibits, live employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 305 employers in Melbourne, FL · 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 Mystic Aquarium/Ocean Blue Catering 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Horticultural Society 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoo 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE US074: Miami 263 - SG 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE RJKielty Plumbing, Heating & Cooling, Inc 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quietflex Manufacturing Company, L.P.-FL 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Origin Florida, LLC 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A458 4,719 FTE
CITY-NEAR HOLMES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nextech HVACR 2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health First Medical Group 1,787 FTE
NAT-TCR Bakersfield Branch 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Store Lambertville 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt at Olive 8 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Police Department 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Covenant Living of Golden Valley 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oregon Coast Community Action 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6018 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shoprite of Rockaway 227 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 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.