Gardens, zoological or botanical · Arizona

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Tucson, AZ · ~153 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Gardens, zoological or botanical workplace, earning a grade D.

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: 5.7 TCR = 185% of Gardens, zoological or botanical BLS 3.1 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum safety composite

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: 5.9 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's TCR rose 1.2 from 5.9 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Tucson, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 185% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Tulsa Zoo Management…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tulsa Zoo Management Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum averages 5.7 TCR (185% 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

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=6 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=6 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 3.1

Where Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum falls in its industry

174 Gardens, zoological or botanic establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Gardens, zoological or botanic employers in Arizona.

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (153 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (153 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum has more 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 7.1 3.3 11 0 0
2023 6.0 3.0 8 0 0
2022 4.5 3.9 7 1 0
2021 4.7 2.0 7 0 0
2020 6.0 3.0 6 0 0
2019 5.5 3.9 7 0 0
2018 7.1 2.4 8 1 0
2017 4.9 3.2 6 0 0
2016 5.9 3.4 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · AZ · Tucson

174 Gardens, zoological or botanical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 1,150 employers in Tucson, AZ · 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 Tulsa Zoo Management Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clearwater Marine Aquarium 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lone Cactus Egg Farm 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Icon Protection Surprise 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE GEORGE BRAZIL AIR CONDITIONING & HEATING 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE UNIVERSAL WALLBOARD CORP. 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Arizona 18,951 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Tucson_AZ_Airport Site 9,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tucson Medical Center 4,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Tucson 3,989 FTE
NAT-TCR Rich Kramer Construction, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Coldspring Transitional Care Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson Outdoors Diving LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Curtis Products LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Churchill Commons Giant Eagle 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens & Minor Richmond 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kansas City Hauling 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE 129000 - CFS Job Cost Omaha 153 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.