Zoological gardens · New York

Prospect Park Zoo

Brooklyn, NY · ~72 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prospect Park Zoo runs at 234% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zoological gardens workplace, earning a grade F.

Prospect Park Zoo: 7.3 TCR = 234% of Zoological gardens BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prospect Park Zoo safety composite

Prospect Park Zoo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Prospect Park Zoo: 8.1 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2020

Prospect Park Zoo's TCR rose 0.5 from 8.1 in 2017 to 8.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Brooklyn, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 234% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #10/18
  • PHOTO Audubon Zoo
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Audubon Zoo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prospect Park Zoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prospect Park Zoo averages 7.3 TCR (234% of the Zoological gardens BLS benchmark).

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

Prospect Park Zoo TCR series: 2017=8.1 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=8.5 · BLS 3.1

Where Prospect Park Zoo falls in its industry

174 Zoological gardens establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 18 Zoological gardens employers in New York.

Prospect Park Zoo (72 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo (72 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Prospect Park Zoo has fewer employees than the Zoological gardens 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
2020 8.5 2.9 6 0 0
2019 5.1 0.0 4 0 0
2017 8.1 8.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · NY · Brooklyn

174 Zoological gardens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 941 employers in Brooklyn, NY · 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 Audubon Zoo 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Ball Zoo 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Michigan Horticultural Society 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Baskin Livestock, Inc 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE NYSEG Liberty 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE NYSEG Auburn 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sackets Harbor Office 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR EDI - Brooklyn 946 9,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR S & A Unified Home Care, Inc. 7,782 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maimonides Medical Center 6,641 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn 5,690 FTE
NAT-TCR 558 - Oldsmar-Int Branch 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Grace Woods Niles 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Medical Center, Inc 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (HWD-6453) 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Texas - Huntsville - 07-H 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Commercial Landscape Service 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ingenia Polymers Inc. - 2222 Appelt, Houston, TX 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE 573 - Montebello-Int Branch 72 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: 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.