Zoological gardens · California

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens

San Francisco, CA · ~196 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zoological gardens workplace, earning a grade F.

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens: 8.1 TCR = 262% of Zoological gardens BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens safety composite

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2017→2023

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens injury rate improved

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens's TCR fell 0.9 from 11.6 in 2017 to 10.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.6 · 2018=10.1 · 2020=0.1 · 2023=10.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · San Francisco, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 262% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO WCS - Prospect Park …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

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

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San Francisco Zoo & Gardens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows San Francisco Zoo & Gardens averages 8.1 TCR (262% of the Zoological gardens BLS benchmark).

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

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens TCR series: 2017=11.6 · 2018=10.1 · 2020=0.1 · 2023=10.7 · BLS 3.1

Where San Francisco Zoo & Gardens falls in its industry

174 Zoological gardens establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #7 safest of 11 Zoological gardens employers in California.

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens (196 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 San Francisco Zoo & Gardens
San Francisco Zoo & Gardens (196 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens has more 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
2023 10.7 1.4 15 0 0
2020 0.1 0.0 10 1 0
2018 10.1 7.7 17 0 0
2017 11.6 9.3 19 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · CA · San Francisco

174 Zoological gardens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,144 employers in San Francisco, 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 WCS - Prospect Park Zoo 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Antonio Zoological Society 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodland Park Zoological Society 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reid Park Zoological Society 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pacific Triple E 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE LE - 03 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Exeter-Ivanhoe Citrus Association 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division #7 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Francisco 18,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR DoorDash, Inc. 12,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Francisco Health 12,262 FTE
CITY-NEAR SFO - Airport United Airlines Offices 11,622 FTE
NAT-TCR Farm & Fleet of Holland 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Surgery Center Howard 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Seafood-Kodiak, LLC dba Island Fish Co. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cherokee Specialty Care 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Horizons Baking Company- Norwalk, OH 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insource Technologies 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vintech Industries 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson Controls Inc Albany 196 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: 2023, 2020, 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.