Museums · Massachusetts

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum

Name: Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Boston, MA · ~64 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.4
Avg TCR: 3.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Museums workplace, earning a grade C.

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum: 3.4 TCR = 108% of Museums BLS 3.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum safety composite

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum: 1.7 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2022

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum's TCR rose 5.1 from 1.7 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Boston, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 108% of ind

DART 6.7 DART
RANK #4/14
PHOTO Orlando Science Center
BOOK 6y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~64 FTE

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

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What this shows Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum averages 3.4 TCR (108% of the Museums BLS benchmark).

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=8.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.7 · BLS 3.1

Where Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum falls in its industry

246 Museums establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 14 Museums employers in Massachusetts.

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum (64 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum has fewer employees than the Museums median and a higher 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
2022	6.7	6.7	1	2
2021	0.0	0.0	0	0
2019	8.4	6.7	5	0
2018	3.3	1.6	2	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0
2016	1.7	1.7	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · MA · Boston

246 Museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 577 employers in Boston, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Orlando Science Center	ORLANDO, FL	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Color Factory Houston	HOUSTON, TX	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ALAMO TRUST, INC	SAN ANTONIO, TX	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Glenstone Foundation	POTOMAC, MD	3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	System 7 Wolfers, Inc.-Beverly Office	DANVERS	64 FTE
STATE-SIZE	kleeberg Mechanical Services LLC	LUDLOW	64 FTE
STATE-SIZE	William F. Lynch Co., Inc.	WORCESTER	64 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Industrial Transfer & Storage, Inc.	SOUTHBRIDGE	64 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Massachusetts General Hospital	Boston	26,855 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Boston	19,183 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Brigham and Womens Hospital	Boston	19,004 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Brigham & Women's Hospital	Boston	18,260 FTE
NAT-TCR	Koch Topeka Parts	Topeka, KS	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	STIHL Northwest	Centralia, WA	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	UFP Riverside, LLC	Riverside, CA	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Herff Jones Frames	Virginia Beach, VA	3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Orrville Trucking	Orrville, OH	64 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ortronics Inc.	Hickory, NC	64 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Matrix Packaging Machinery	Saukville, WI	64 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DC - Dallas	Dallas, TX	64 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.