Zoological Gardens · New York

WCS - New York Aquarium

Brooklyn, NY · ~198 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WCS - New York Aquarium runs at 324% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zoological Gardens workplace, earning a grade F.

WCS - New York Aquarium: 10.0 TCR = 324% of Zoological Gardens BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WCS - New York Aquarium safety composite

WCS - New York Aquarium scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−7.9

2021→2024

WCS - New York Aquarium injury rate improved

WCS - New York Aquarium's TCR fell 7.9 from 19.1 in 2021 to 11.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=19.1 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=11.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 324% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #13/18
  • PHOTO WCS - Queens Zoo
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WCS - Queens Zoo (0.1 TCR gap)

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WCS - New York Aquarium in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WCS - New York Aquarium averages 10.0 TCR (324% of the Zoological Gardens BLS benchmark).

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

WCS - New York Aquarium TCR series: 2021=19.1 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=11.2 · BLS 3.1

Where WCS - New York Aquarium falls in its industry

174 Zoological Gardens establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #13 safest of 18 Zoological Gardens employers in New York.

WCS - New York Aquarium (198 employees, TCR 10.0) 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 WCS - New York Aquarium
WCS - New York Aquarium (198 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

WCS - New York Aquarium 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
2024 11.2 2.5 16 2 0
2023 3.8 3.8 6 0 0
2022 6.2 3.9 8 0 0
2021 19.1 5.5 28 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 WCS - Queens Zoo 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Holden Arboretum 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoological Society of Pittsburgh DBA Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoological Society of Pittsburgh DBA Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE E W Howell Co LLC 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Murnane Construction Services, Inc. 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rifenburg Construction Inc. 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific BO 198 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 Fairfield Inn and Suites - Alexandria 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Horst Hotels 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Norstan Inc 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Toshiba Business Solutions, Inc 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE B and G Foods North America, Inc. 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10717 Stonestown 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Axiom Division 7 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE SACO AEI Polymers 198 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, 2022, 2021. 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.