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

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.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.1
industry benchmark (BLS)
112
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Monterey Bay Aquarium's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Monterey Bay Aquarium's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.1 industry benchmark.

234567 201820202021202220232024 5.53.1 Industry benchmarkMonterey Bay Aquarium TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 712130.

Where Monterey Bay Aquarium falls in its industry

177 Botanical Zoos and Gardens establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

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 has an average TCR of 4.2, which is 134% of the industry average (3.1) for Botanical Zoos and Gardens. This is worse than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for Monterey Bay Aquarium

Between 2018 and 2024, Monterey Bay Aquarium's Total Case Rate worsened from 4.3 to 5.5 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 27% increase across 6 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 2.8, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 5.9, a spread of 3.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 6 reporting years, Monterey Bay Aquarium recorded 112 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Monterey Bay Aquarium's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 712130 - Botanical Zoos and Gardens.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

28 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,093,275 hours worked = 5.12 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Monterey Bay Aquarium (this establishment) 4.16 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg
Zoos industry avg 3.10 BLS IIF, NAICS 712130
California state avg (all industries) 5.64 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Monterey Bay Aquarium to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

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

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Monterey Bay Aquarium's reported OSHA injury record versus its Botanical Zoos and Gardens peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 134% of the Botanical Zoos and Gardens benchmark, Monterey Bay Aquarium reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Botanical Zoos and Gardens sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Monterey Bay Aquarium's safety grade?
Monterey Bay Aquarium has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.2 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.1 for Botanical Zoos and Gardens.
How many injuries has Monterey Bay Aquarium reported?
Monterey Bay Aquarium has reported 112 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 6 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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.

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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.