Zoological gardens · Colorado

Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center

Westminster, CO · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Zoological gardens workplace, earning a grade D.

Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center: 4.4 TCR = 143% of Zoological gardens BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center safety composite

Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center: 1.6 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.64× in 2019

Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center's TCR rose 5.6 from 1.6 in 2018 to 7.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Westminster, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 143% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO The Toledo Zoo
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Toledo Zoo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center averages 4.4 TCR (143% of the Zoological gardens BLS benchmark).

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

Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center TCR series: 2018=1.6 · 2019=7.3 · BLS 3.1

Where Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center falls in its industry

174 Zoological gardens establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Zoological gardens employers in Colorado.

Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center (110 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center
Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center (110 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center has fewer employees than the Zoological gardens median and a lower 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
2019 7.3 7.3 3 1 0
2018 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · CO · Westminster

174 Zoological gardens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 169 employers in Westminster, CO · 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 The Toledo Zoo 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tennessee Aquarium 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huntsville Madison County Botanical Garden Society Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston Zoo, Inc. 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rocky Mountain Midstream 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE DMEA 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE I25 South Gap 061911 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Castle Rock Construction Company of Colorado LLC 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMC/Westmoor Campus 1,582 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Anthony North Health Campus 1,174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trimble Inc Westminster 840 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westminster AMC/WMR 638 FTE
NAT-TCR Sintertec 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Romak Iron Works332312 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Infiniti of Valencia 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Victoria's Secret Processing Center - Las Vegas 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aperion Care Olney 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas SDO 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sullivan Solar Power 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Indio 110 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.