Zoological Gardens · New York

WCS - Prospect Park Zoo

Brooklyn, NY · ~73 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WCS - Prospect Park Zoo runs at 263% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zoological Gardens workplace, earning a grade F.

WCS - Prospect Park Zoo: 8.2 TCR = 263% of Zoological Gardens BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WCS - Prospect Park Zoo safety composite

WCS - Prospect Park Zoo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

WCS - Prospect Park Zoo: 2.6 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

WCS - Prospect Park Zoo's TCR rose 3.3 from 2.6 in 2021 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 263% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO San Antonio Zoologic…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Antonio Zoological Society (0.0 TCR gap)

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WCS - Prospect Park Zoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WCS - Prospect Park Zoo averages 8.2 TCR (263% of the Zoological Gardens BLS benchmark).

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

WCS - Prospect Park Zoo TCR series: 2021=2.6 · 2022=13.7 · 2023=10.4 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.1

Where WCS - Prospect Park Zoo falls in its industry

174 Zoological Gardens establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #11 safest of 18 Zoological Gardens employers in New York.

WCS - Prospect Park Zoo (73 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 - Prospect Park Zoo
WCS - Prospect Park Zoo (73 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

WCS - Prospect Park Zoo has fewer 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 5.9 0.0 4 0 0
2023 10.4 9.1 8 0 0
2022 13.7 12.0 8 0 0
2021 2.6 2.6 2 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 San Antonio Zoological Society 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Francisco Zoo & Gardens 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodland Park Zoological Society 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reid Park Zoological Society 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southview Dairy 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Irish Welding & Irish Propane 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE LSP NY 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE BATAVIA SERVICE CENTER-NY35 73 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 Powder Coating Specialties, Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-West Mfg. LLC - Chicago Heights Plant 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DJZ5 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cornella Brothers, Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rotational Molding of Utah 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electro Plate Circuitry, Inc. 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Fence LLC 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oxford Derby Memory Care, LLC 73 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.