Museum · New York

American Museum of Natural History

New York, NY · ~1,211 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Museum of Natural History runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Museum workplace, earning a grade A.

American Museum of Natural History: 1.5 TCR = 49% of Museum BLS 3.1 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Museum of Natural History safety composite

American Museum of Natural History scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

American Museum of Natural History held a steady TCR band

American Museum of Natural History's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.3 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.3 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=2.0 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=1.0 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · New York, NY AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 49% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #6/21
  • PHOTO McWane Science Center
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 143 inj
  • SIZE ~1,211 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McWane Science Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Museum of Natural History in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Museum of Natural History averages 1.5 TCR (49% of the Museum BLS benchmark).

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

American Museum of Natural History TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=2 · 2020=2 · 2021=1 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.1

Where American Museum of Natural History falls in its industry

246 Museum establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 21 Museum employers in New York.

American Museum of Natural History (1,211 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History (1,211 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

American Museum of Natural History has more employees than the Museum median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 1.7 1.4 15 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 15 1 0
2022 1.2 0.9 11 0 0
2021 1.0 1.0 9 0 0
2020 2.0 2.0 19 0 0
2019 2.0 1.9 24 0 0
2018 1.6 1.4 18 1 0
2017 1.5 1.4 17 0 0
2016 1.3 1.1 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · NY · New York

246 Museum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 1,952 employers in New York, 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 McWane Science Center 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Color Factory Chicago 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 14085 THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus Museum of Art 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 92030015 NYP LOWER MANHATTAN HOSPITAL 1,212 FTE
STATE-SIZE BorgWarner Ithaca LLC 1,206 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1111 Stewart Ave 1,206 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4263-26566 1,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Grossman School of Medicine 16,280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital Corporation (MEM) 14,781 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Langone Hospitals 12,389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Sinai Medical Center 11,845 FTE
NAT-TCR Tyrrell House 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR McNaughton-McKay Electric Company - Michigan Region - Madison Heights, MI 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Zarvona Energy LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American Wilcon Plastics - Air Vent - Orrick 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marshalls Bridgewater Merchants, Inc 1,211 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlton Senior Living, LLC 1,211 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chevron El Segundo Refinery 1,211 FTE
NAT-SIZE Filtration : Kearney 1,211 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.