Zoos · South Carolina

Riverbanks Zoo & Garden

Columbia, SC · ~349 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Riverbanks Zoo & Garden runs at 306% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zoos workplace, earning a grade F.

Riverbanks Zoo & Garden: 9.5 TCR = 306% of Zoos BLS 3.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Riverbanks Zoo & Garden safety composite

Riverbanks Zoo & Garden scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Riverbanks Zoo & Garden: 10.3 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2021

Riverbanks Zoo & Garden's TCR rose 1.1 from 10.3 in 2017 to 11.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 306% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK P26
  • PHOTO Hi'ipaka
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 94 inj
  • SIZE ~349 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hi'ipaka (0.0 TCR gap)

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Riverbanks Zoo & Garden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Riverbanks Zoo & Garden averages 9.5 TCR (306% of the Zoos BLS benchmark).

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

Riverbanks Zoo & Garden TCR series: 2017=10.3 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=7 · 2021=11.4 · BLS 3.1

Where Riverbanks Zoo & Garden falls in its industry

174 Zoos establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Riverbanks Zoo & Garden (349 employees, TCR 9.5) 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 Riverbanks Zoo & Garden
Riverbanks Zoo & Garden (349 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Riverbanks Zoo & Garden 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
2021 11.4 7.9 21 2 0
2020 7.0 4.9 12 1 0
2019 10.9 9.9 23 0 0
2018 7.8 5.5 20 0 0
2017 10.3 8.1 18 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · SC · Columbia

174 Zoos employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 542 employers in Columbia, SC · 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 Hi'ipaka 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blank Park Zoo 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoological Society of Buffalo 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Myriad Gardens Foundation 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ridgeview Mfg. 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marwin Company Inc. 350 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stanley Black and Decker 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5745 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR La Quinta Inn & Suites Tucson - Reid Park 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lazy Acres Santa Barbara 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SpecSys Inc Watertown 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kent Power 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Machining Center 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerdau Cartersville Mill 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cm7 Med - Tualatin 349 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.