Zoos · Kentucky

Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo

Louisville, KY · ~135 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zoos workplace, earning a grade F.

Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo: 6.3 TCR = 204% of Zoos BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo safety composite

Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo: 5.0 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo's TCR rose 2.6 from 5.0 in 2023 to 7.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 204% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK P51
  • PHOTO Naples Zoo
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Naples Zoo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo averages 6.3 TCR (204% of the Zoos BLS benchmark).

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

Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo TCR series: 2023=5 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 3.1

Where Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo falls in its industry

174 Zoos establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo (135 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo
Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo (135 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government - The Louisville Zoo has fewer employees than the Zoos 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 7.6 5.1 11 1 0
2023 5.0 4.4 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · KY · Louisville

174 Zoos employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 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 Naples Zoo 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cosley Zoo 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bronx Zoo 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arizona Center for Nature Conservation 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mago 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE BFB 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jim Beam Brands-Booker Noe 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Champion Benton 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Pickering Manor Home 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1494 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sii - Chowchilla 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CB PR Hotel LLC 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amcor Flexibles North America 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frontier Electronic Systems Corp 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pecan Valley Rehabilitation and Healthcare 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avery Dennison Mill Hall Facility 135 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. 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.