Pet supplies (except pet food) merchant wholesalers · California

Zoo Med Laboratories Inc

San Luis Obispo, CA · ~169 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zoo Med Laboratories Inc runs at 425% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pet supplies (except pet food) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Zoo Med Laboratories Inc: 9.3 TCR = 425% of Pet supplies (except pet food) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zoo Med Laboratories Inc safety composite

Zoo Med Laboratories Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Zoo Med Laboratories Inc: 7.8 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2021

Zoo Med Laboratories Inc's TCR rose 0.8 from 7.8 in 2019 to 8.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424990 · San Luis Obispo, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 425% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #31/37
  • PHOTO Keefe Group Sarasota
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Keefe Group Sarasota (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zoo Med Laboratories Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zoo Med Laboratories Inc averages 9.3 TCR (425% of the Pet supplies (except pet food) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Zoo Med Laboratories Inc TCR series: 2019=7.8 · 2020=11.7 · 2021=8.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Zoo Med Laboratories Inc falls in its industry

301 Pet supplies (except pet food) establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 37 Pet supplies (except pet food) employers in California.

Zoo Med Laboratories Inc (169 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Zoo Med Laboratories Inc
Zoo Med Laboratories Inc (169 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Zoo Med Laboratories Inc has more employees than the Pet supplies (except pet food) merchant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2021 8.6 8.1 18 0 0
2020 11.7 11.0 19 0 0
2019 7.8 7.0 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424990 · CA · San Luis Obispo

301 Pet supplies (except pet food) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 177 employers in San Luis Obispo, 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 Keefe Group Sarasota 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orion Photo Industries 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaman's Art Shoppes, Inc SMPL-67 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATD-NC 18 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adam Gutierrez 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE E & C LABOR SERVICES INC 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE MALAGA SHIPPING 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-South Harvesting, Inc. 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bella Vista Transitional Care Center 8,119 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Men's Colony - San Luis Obispo 1,599 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Men's Colony 1,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 279 946 FTE
NAT-TCR Clarkston Specialty Healthcare Center 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR S05000 - Norridgewock (Satellite) 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Home Hardware Centers 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 2029 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABQ - Ground Ops 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota Office 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scantron - Eagan 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACH Food Companies, Inc. 169 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.