Gardens, zoological or botanical · Massachusetts

Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc

Mendon, MA · ~117 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Gardens, zoological or botanical workplace, earning a grade D.

Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc: 6.1 TCR = 196% of Gardens, zoological or botanical BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc safety composite

Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−2.7

2021→2024

Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc injury rate improved

Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc's TCR fell 2.7 from 8.9 in 2021 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.9 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Mendon, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 196% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK P53
  • PHOTO Arizona Center for N…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arizona Center for Nature Conservation (0.1 TCR gap)

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Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc averages 6.1 TCR (196% of the Gardens, zoological or botanical BLS benchmark).

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

Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc TCR series: 2021=8.9 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 3.1

Where Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc falls in its industry

174 Gardens, zoological or botanic establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc (117 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc
Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc (117 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc has fewer employees than the Gardens, zoological or botanical median and a lower 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
2024 6.1 6.1 3 1 0
2023 3.2 3.2 3 0 0
2021 8.9 8.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · MA · Mendon

174 Gardens, zoological or botanical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 3 employers in Mendon, MA · 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 Arizona Center for Nature Conservation 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red River Zoological Society 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aquarium-Denver 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Connecticut Zoological Society 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chapman Waterproofing Company 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newly Weds Foods Watertown Plant 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holt and Bugbee Co. 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE STMABerryGlobal 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Devaney Energy Mendon 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Progress Truss LLC 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - AGS2 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Estates at Rush City 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Barton County Electric Cooperative 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Louth Callan Renewables LLC 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Atomics - Sorrento Valley 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylor Made 112 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Jefferson 117 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: 2024, 2023, 2021. 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.