Zoos · Texas

Fort Worth Zoological Association

Fort Worth, TX · ~534 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fort Worth Zoological Association runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zoos workplace, earning a grade F.

Fort Worth Zoological Association: 9.1 TCR = 292% of Zoos BLS 3.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fort Worth Zoological Association safety composite

Fort Worth Zoological Association 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.97 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

Fort Worth Zoological Association: 9.9 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

Fort Worth Zoological Association's TCR rose 1.2 from 9.9 in 2017 to 11.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Fort Worth, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 292% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO Indianapolis Zoo
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 253 inj
  • SIZE ~534 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indianapolis Zoo (0.1 TCR gap)

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Fort Worth Zoological Association in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fort Worth Zoological Association averages 9.1 TCR (292% of the Zoos BLS benchmark).

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

Fort Worth Zoological Association TCR series: 2017=9.9 · 2018=7.5 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=11.1 · 2022=10.2 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 3.1

Where Fort Worth Zoological Association falls in its industry

174 Zoos establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #9 safest of 10 Zoos employers in Texas.

Fort Worth Zoological Association (534 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 Fort Worth Zoological Association
Fort Worth Zoological Association (534 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Fort Worth Zoological Association has more 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
2024 11.1 8.0 53 0 0
2023 8.2 5.5 36 0 0
2022 10.2 7.9 40 0 0
2021 11.1 5.6 40 0 0
2020 5.3 2.1 18 0 0
2018 7.5 4.0 30 0 0
2017 9.9 5.6 36 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · TX · Fort Worth

174 Zoos employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,346 employers in Fort Worth, 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 Indianapolis Zoo 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metro- Oregon Zoo 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utah Zoological Society 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoological Society of Buffalo 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manufacturing - El Paso 534 FTE
STATE-SIZE TowerJazz Texas 534 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Central Texas - A Division of Sysco USA 1 - New Braunfels 534 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8590 West Tidwell - TXH84 534 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US TX Fort Worth Lockheed Blvd (1093) 16,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Fort Worth Campus (1093) 13,805 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Children's Medical Center 4,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX- Fort Worth 4,667 FTE
NAT-TCR Cedar Creek Memory Care 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR North Suburban Medical Center 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Amundson Roofing, Inc 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2431 - Milton 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bass Pro DC Springfield 534 FTE
NAT-SIZE SEACORP 534 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nortek Okarche 534 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge 534 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, 2018, 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.