Animal exhibits, live · Indiana

Indianapolis Zoo

Indinapolis, IN · ~432 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Indianapolis Zoo runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal exhibits, live workplace, earning a grade F.

Indianapolis Zoo: 7.8 TCR = 250% of Animal exhibits, live BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Indianapolis Zoo safety composite

Indianapolis Zoo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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 7.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Indianapolis Zoo: 7.3 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2024

Indianapolis Zoo's TCR rose 2.4 from 7.3 in 2022 to 9.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Indinapolis, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 250% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK P37
  • PHOTO Chicago Zoological S…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 72 inj
  • SIZE ~432 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chicago Zoological Society (0.0 TCR gap)

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Indianapolis Zoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Indianapolis Zoo averages 7.8 TCR (250% of the Animal exhibits, live BLS benchmark).

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

Indianapolis Zoo TCR series: 2022=7.3 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 3.1

Where Indianapolis Zoo falls in its industry

174 Animal exhibits, live establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Indianapolis Zoo (432 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Indianapolis Zoo
Indianapolis Zoo (432 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Indianapolis Zoo 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 9.7 6.6 29 5 0
2023 6.3 4.2 21 0 0
2022 7.3 4.3 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · IN · Indinapolis

174 Animal exhibits, live employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 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 Chicago Zoological Society 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoological Society of Philadelphia 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omaha Zoological Society 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sea Life Park Hawaii 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elanco Clinton 432 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ardagh Glass Inc Winchester 432 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4235 432 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2339 432 FTE
NAT-TCR 923 Ventures, LLC d.b.a. Grocery Outlet of Shillington 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Region 5- Baker City 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR J-M Northwest, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE RSI 432 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delaware 432 FTE
NAT-SIZE FCHN - Franklin Memorial Hospital 432 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hydaker-Wheatlake - Michigan Statewide 432 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. 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.