Zoos · California

Los Angeles Zoo

Los Angeles, CA · ~369 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.3
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Los Angeles Zoo runs at 558% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zoos workplace, earning a grade F.

Los Angeles Zoo: 17.3 TCR = 558% of Zoos BLS 3.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Los Angeles Zoo safety composite

Los Angeles Zoo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

Los Angeles Zoo held a steady TCR band

Los Angeles Zoo's TCR held near 0.2 from 19.4 in 2017 to 19.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=19.4 · 2018=17.9 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=16.8 · 2021=19.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 17.3 · 558% of ind

  • DART 14.5 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO SeaQuest Roseville
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 189 inj
  • SIZE ~369 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SeaQuest Roseville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Los Angeles Zoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Los Angeles Zoo averages 17.3 TCR (558% 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 TCR series: 2017=19.4 · 2018=17.9 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=16.8 · 2021=19.6 · BLS 3.1

Where Los Angeles Zoo falls in its industry

174 Zoos establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #9 safest of 11 Zoos employers in California.

Los Angeles Zoo (369 employees, TCR 17.3) 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
Los Angeles Zoo (369 employees, TCR 17.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Los Angeles Zoo 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
2021 19.6 14.5 40 2 0
2020 16.8 10.1 36 2 0
2019 12.8 10.0 32 0 0
2018 17.9 9.4 40 2 0
2017 19.4 11.0 41 3 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 SeaQuest Roseville 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SeaQuest Fort Worth 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hidden Valley Animal Adventure 17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens 18.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pharmavite, LLC 369 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ryan Herco Flow Solutions 369 FTE
STATE-SIZE 117 - San Diego 369 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3477 369 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 6458-ZBLD 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-ORF-NORFOLK-ORF-PDMT 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Savor Street Foods, Inc 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Newark, De #00206 17.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Automotive Steering Columns, LLC 369 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patterson Companies, Inc (FSS) 369 FTE
NAT-SIZE James Hardie Building Products-Pulaski VA 369 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jenkins Services, Inc. 369 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.