Botanical Zoos and Gardens · California

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Monterey, CA · ~1,686 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Monterey Bay Aquarium runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Botanical Zoos and Gardens workplace, earning a grade D.

Monterey Bay Aquarium: 4.2 TCR = 134% of Botanical Zoos and Gardens BLS 3.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Monterey Bay Aquarium safety composite

Monterey Bay Aquarium scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.12 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

Monterey Bay Aquarium: 4.3 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2024

Monterey Bay Aquarium's TCR rose 1.2 from 4.3 in 2018 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Monterey, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 134% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO North Carolina Aquar…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 112 inj
  • SIZE ~1,686 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island (0.0 TCR gap)

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Monterey Bay Aquarium in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Monterey Bay Aquarium averages 4.2 TCR (134% of the Botanical Zoos and Gardens BLS benchmark).

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

Monterey Bay Aquarium TCR series: 2018=4.3 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.1

Where Monterey Bay Aquarium falls in its industry

174 Botanical Zoos and Gardens establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #6 safest of 11 Botanical Zoos and Gardens employers in California.

Monterey Bay Aquarium (1,686 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Monterey Bay Aquarium
Monterey Bay Aquarium (1,686 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Monterey Bay Aquarium has more employees than the Botanical Zoos and Gardens 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 5.5 5.1 27 3 0
2023 2.8 2.2 13 1 0
2022 5.9 5.9 26 0 0
2021 3.6 2.5 13 0 0
2020 2.9 2.2 12 0 0
2018 4.3 4.2 21 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · CA · Monterey

174 Botanical Zoos and Gardens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 68 employers in Monterey, 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 North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tennessee Aquarium 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Top of the Rock 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SeaQuest Managment INC 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon Transportation Services : SMF5 1,686 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Presbyterian Hospital 1,686 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Torrance 1,686 FTE
STATE-SIZE Webcor Builders 1,688 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 143 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 163 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN REGION : BEU 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Portola Hotel & Spa 322 FTE
NAT-TCR Texas Pack, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Harvest Healthcare Solutions LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Necol - Columbus 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 744 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Consigli Construction Company, Inc. 1,686 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indianpolis 1,686 FTE
NAT-SIZE Long Island 1,686 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richmond Central 1,686 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, 2020, 2018. 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.