Zoos · Minnesota

Minnesota Zoo

Apple Valley, MN · ~261 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Minnesota Zoo runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Zoos workplace, earning a grade D.

Minnesota Zoo: 5.1 TCR = 163% of Zoos BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Minnesota Zoo safety composite

Minnesota Zoo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Minnesota Zoo: 0.0 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Minnesota Zoo's TCR rose 7.2 from 0.0 in 2021 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Apple Valley, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 163% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK P66
  • PHOTO WCS - Central Park Zoo
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~261 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WCS - Central Park Zoo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Minnesota Zoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Minnesota Zoo averages 5.1 TCR (163% of the Zoos BLS benchmark).

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

Minnesota Zoo TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.1

Where Minnesota Zoo falls in its industry

174 Zoos establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Minnesota Zoo (261 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Minnesota Zoo
Minnesota Zoo (261 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Minnesota Zoo has more 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 7.2 4.7 19 1 0
2023 8.8 4.6 19 2 0
2022 4.3 3.3 8 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · MN · Apple Valley

174 Zoos employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 91 employers in Apple Valley, MN · 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 WCS - Central Park Zoo 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Morton Arboretum 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt. Cuba Center 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Downtown Aquarium Houston 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE ProMed Molded Products - Medina 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1020 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chaska Community Center 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro Plant 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Apple Valley 880 FTE
CITY-NEAR Uponor - Apple Valley 682 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2390 - Apple Valley South 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2642 416 FTE
NAT-TCR Dwyer Instruments Inc - South Bend IN 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Honda of Fort Myers 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR RSG Landscaping, LLC 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sierra Village Markets LLC- PORTOLA LOCATION 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Office - 002 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE Desert Diamond Arena 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE Decatur Reynolds Office 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE Becton Dickinson Distribution Center 261 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, 2021. 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.