ZOOS · Florida

Center for Great Apes

Wauchula, FL · ~36 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Center for Great Apes runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical ZOOS workplace, earning a grade F.

Center for Great Apes: 7.0 TCR = 227% of ZOOS BLS 3.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Center for Great Apes safety composite

Center for Great Apes scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Center for Great Apes: 0.0 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 17.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2023

Center for Great Apes's TCR rose 7.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 17.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Wauchula, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 227% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Meadowlark Botanical…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meadowlark Botanical Gardens (0.0 TCR gap)

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Center for Great Apes in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Center for Great Apes averages 7.0 TCR (227% of the ZOOS BLS benchmark).

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

Center for Great Apes TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=10.3 · 2021=3 · 2022=17.3 · 2023=7.9 · BLS 3.1

Where Center for Great Apes falls in its industry

174 ZOOS establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #6 safest of 9 ZOOS employers in Florida.

Center for Great Apes (36 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Center for Great Apes
Center for Great Apes (36 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Center for Great Apes has fewer employees than the ZOOS 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
2023 7.9 7.9 3 0 0
2022 17.3 11.5 6 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2020 10.3 6.9 3 0 0
2019 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2018 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · FL · Wauchula

174 ZOOS employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 24 employers in Wauchula, 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 Meadowlark Botanical Gardens 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Florida Aquarium 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle Center 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scott Citrus Management, Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Care Florida LLC.-Alachua 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-Maine Foods Lake Wales Florida 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE FM4 Gladiolus Service Center 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Citrus Harvesting, Inc. 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 759 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Florida Hospital Wauchula 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside TLF, LLC 203 FTE
NAT-TCR Blake Hershberger Enterprises, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Newburgh Health Care & Residential Cente 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mission Valley YMCA 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Indy East IN 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Skyzone-Topeka, LLC 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eye Surgery Center of Chattanooga 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cayey 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Truck Refrigeration Repair, Inc. 36 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.