Zoological gardens · California

Santa Barbara Zoo

Santa Barbara, CA · ~229 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Santa Barbara Zoo runs at 365% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zoological gardens workplace, earning a grade F.

Santa Barbara Zoo: 11.3 TCR = 365% of Zoological gardens BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Santa Barbara Zoo safety composite

Santa Barbara Zoo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Santa Barbara Zoo: 8.9 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2023

Santa Barbara Zoo's TCR rose 4.9 from 8.9 in 2022 to 13.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 365% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Binder Park Zoologic…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~229 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Binder Park Zoological Society, Inc (0.2 TCR gap)

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Santa Barbara Zoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Santa Barbara Zoo averages 11.3 TCR (365% of the Zoological gardens BLS benchmark).

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

Santa Barbara Zoo TCR series: 2022=8.9 · 2023=13.8 · BLS 3.1

Where Santa Barbara Zoo falls in its industry

174 Zoological gardens establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #8 safest of 11 Zoological gardens employers in California.

Santa Barbara Zoo (229 employees, TCR 11.3) 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 Santa Barbara Zoo
Santa Barbara Zoo (229 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Santa Barbara Zoo 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 13.8 5.1 19 0 0
2022 8.9 8.9 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · CA · Santa Barbara

174 Zoological gardens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 173 employers in Santa Barbara, 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 Binder Park Zoological Society, Inc 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoo 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum, Inc. 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Horticultural Society 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Stone 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2400-Oxnard, CA 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN FARMLAND CULTIVATION, INC. 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Central Orange County S/C 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Barbara 10,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 3,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Barbara 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Green Santa Barbara 674 FTE
NAT-TCR Memphis Fence Company 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100608 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgeport Academy 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 5 Star Industries LLC 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hudson 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bronco Billys Casino and Hotel 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maron Electric Company 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vitalant CO Denver 229 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, 2022. 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.