Animal exhibits, live · Colorado

Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society

Colorado Springs, CO · ~219 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society runs at 272% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal exhibits, live workplace, earning a grade F.

Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society: 8.4 TCR = 272% of Animal exhibits, live BLS 3.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society safety composite

Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society held a steady TCR band

Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society's TCR held near 0.1 from 10.4 in 2018 to 10.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.4 · 2019=6.9 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=10.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Colorado Springs, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 272% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Zoological Society o…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Zoological Society of Cincinnati (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society averages 8.4 TCR (272% of the Animal exhibits, live BLS benchmark).

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

Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society TCR series: 2018=10.4 · 2019=6.9 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 3.1

Where Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society falls in its industry

174 Animal exhibits, live establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #6 safest of 7 Animal exhibits, live employers in Colorado.

Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society (219 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society (219 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society 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 10.2 4.4 13 1 0
2023 8.3 0.0 11 0 0
2022 6.3 2.4 8 0 0
2019 6.9 4.1 10 0 0
2018 10.4 8.0 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · CO · Colorado Springs

174 Animal exhibits, live employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 832 employers in Colorado Springs, 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 Zoological Society of Cincinnati 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reid Park Zoological Society 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodland Park Zoological Society 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WCS - Prospect Park Zoo 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Willow Creek Companies, LLC 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Courtesy Electric co 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE BRD/PDF 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Broomfield BCH 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Colorado Hospital Memorial Central 3,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN4 2,948 FTE
CITY-NEAR Penrose Hospital 2,841 FTE
CITY-NEAR 05070001-050701 PENROSE HOSPITAL 2,391 FTE
NAT-TCR TXC014 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR COR Construction Services, Inc 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresno Office 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Finney County Hides 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE T.B. Wood's inc. 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transportation : Holcombe Houston - Trans 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE RW Lyall 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Autodie 219 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.