Zoos · Oregon

Metro- Oregon Zoo

Portland, OR · ~476 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metro- Oregon Zoo runs at 295% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zoos workplace, earning a grade F.

Metro- Oregon Zoo: 9.2 TCR = 295% of Zoos BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro- Oregon Zoo safety composite

Metro- Oregon Zoo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Metro- Oregon Zoo: 10.1 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2023

Metro- Oregon Zoo's TCR rose 2.3 from 10.1 in 2019 to 12.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Portland, OR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 295% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK P28
  • PHOTO Utah Zoological Soci…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~476 FTE

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

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Metro- Oregon Zoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metro- Oregon Zoo averages 9.2 TCR (295% of the Zoos BLS benchmark).

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

Metro- Oregon Zoo TCR series: 2019=10.1 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=12.4 · BLS 3.1

Where Metro- Oregon Zoo falls in its industry

174 Zoos establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Metro- Oregon Zoo (476 employees, TCR 9.2) 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 Metro- Oregon Zoo
Metro- Oregon Zoo (476 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Metro- Oregon 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
2023 12.4 9.7 20 3 0
2022 9.7 6.6 15 1 0
2021 4.4 2.2 5 1 0
2019 10.1 2.2 24 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · OR · Portland

174 Zoos employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 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 Utah Zoological Society 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Worth Zoological Association 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indianapolis Zoo 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoological Society of Buffalo 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Garmin AT 476 FTE
STATE-SIZE NuScale Power, LLC 476 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central School District 476 FTE
STATE-SIZE Multnomah County Bldg 119/Justice Center 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Coronado Continuing Care Center Ltd. Co. d/b/a Coronado at Stone Oak 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Impact Confections 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Biewer of Lansing 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Trichromatic-West Inc. 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jurupa Valley, CA (Walmart) 432 476 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casa Grande Plant 476 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crystal Springs Inc. 476 FTE
NAT-SIZE Geostabilization International LLC 476 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.