Zoos · California

Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens

Los Angeles, CA · ~345 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.4
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens runs at 594% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zoos workplace, earning a grade F.

Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens: 18.4 TCR = 594% of Zoos BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens safety composite

Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

−0.9

2022→2024

Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens injury rate improved

Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens's TCR fell 0.9 from 18.2 in 2022 to 17.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 19.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=18.2 · 2023=19.6 · 2024=17.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 18.4 · 594% of ind

  • DART 15.7 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Pittsburgh Botanic G…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 114 inj
  • SIZE ~345 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pittsburgh Botanic Garden (0.6 TCR gap)

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Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens averages 18.4 TCR (594% of the Zoos BLS benchmark).

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

Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens TCR series: 2022=18.2 · 2023=19.6 · 2024=17.3 · BLS 3.1

Where Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens falls in its industry

174 Zoos establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Zoos employers in California.

Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens (345 employees, TCR 18.4) 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 Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens
Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens (345 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens 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 17.3 15.7 42 0 0
2023 19.6 11.9 43 0 0
2022 18.2 13.7 29 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · CA · Los Angeles

174 Zoos employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, CA · 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 Pittsburgh Botanic Garden 19.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hidden Valley Animal Adventure 17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SeaQuest Fort Worth 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SeaQuest Roseville 17.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sarc, Inc. 345 FTE
STATE-SIZE Triton Construction 345 FTE
STATE-SIZE Escalon Premier Brand 345 FTE
STATE-SIZE KNT Manufacturing 345 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR Forde Nursery Inc 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Street and Sanitation 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Powderhorn Pacific LLC 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Uncle Giuseppe's Ramsey, Inc. 18.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty Civil Construction,LLC 345 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rosenberg 345 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alfa Laval Inc. Broken Arrow (loc code: ALACEC) 345 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tanner Medical Group 345 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.