Animal exhibits, live · Texas

Dallas Zoo

Dallas, TX · ~389 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dallas Zoo runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal exhibits, live workplace, earning a grade F.

Dallas Zoo: 6.7 TCR = 215% of Animal exhibits, live BLS 3.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dallas Zoo safety composite

Dallas Zoo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−6.4

2016→2024

Dallas Zoo injury rate improved

Dallas Zoo's TCR fell 6.4 from 10.3 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.3 · 2020=7.9 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Dallas, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 215% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Erie Zoological Soci…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 116 inj
  • SIZE ~389 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Erie Zoological Society (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dallas Zoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dallas Zoo averages 6.7 TCR (215% of the Animal exhibits, live BLS benchmark).

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

Dallas Zoo TCR series: 2016=10.3 · 2020=7.9 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.1

Where Dallas Zoo falls in its industry

174 Animal exhibits, live establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Animal exhibits, live employers in Texas.

Dallas Zoo (389 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Dallas Zoo
Dallas Zoo (389 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Dallas Zoo has more employees than the Animal exhibits, live 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
2024 3.9 1.5 11 2 0
2023 5.5 2.7 17 1 0
2022 5.5 2.3 16 1 0
2021 6.9 4.4 16 3 0
2020 7.9 3.5 19 6 0
2016 10.3 5.0 37 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · TX · Dallas

174 Animal exhibits, live employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,187 employers in Dallas, TX · 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 Erie Zoological Society 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Carolina Aquarium at Roanoke Island 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dogwood 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas State Aquarium 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE QES Directional Drilling 389 FTE
STATE-SIZE Letsos Company 389 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eddy Foods 389 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raytheon_Dallas_TX_ RPM_Lemmon Avenue 389 FTE
CITY-NEAR AECOM DCS (US Operations) 15,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rexel USA, Inc 8,356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1 CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS 6,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR HDQ - Headquarters 5,764 FTE
NAT-TCR Santa Monica Place 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Agriland FS - Canby 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Windsor Hardware LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dekalb DKC Bldg 5 389 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rycon Construction, Inc. 389 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pettipaug 389 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Great Lakes Construction Co. 389 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, 2021, 2020, 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.