Botanical gardens · New York

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation

Brooklyn, NY · ~239 workers · 5 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

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Botanical gardens workplace, earning a grade D.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation: 5.7 TCR = 184% of Botanical gardens BLS 3.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation safety composite

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation: 5.3 → 10.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2024

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation's TCR rose 5.3 from 5.3 in 2016 to 10.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 184% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #8/18
  • PHOTO Denver Zoological Fo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~239 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denver Zoological Foundation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation averages 5.7 TCR (184% of the Botanical gardens BLS benchmark).

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

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=5.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 3.1

Where Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation falls in its industry

174 Botanical gardens establishments

Safer than 59% 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 #8 safest of 18 Botanical gardens employers in New York.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation (239 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 Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation (239 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation has more employees than the Botanical gardens 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 10.5 7.6 18 0 0
2023 1.9 1.3 3 0 0
2021 5.9 3.7 8 0 0
2020 4.9 1.6 3 0 0
2016 5.3 4.8 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · NY · Brooklyn

174 Botanical 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 Denver Zoological Foundation 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clearwater Marine Aquarium 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tulsa Zoo Management Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4829-11805 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 105285 - Champlain Hudson Power Express-Transmiss 239 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acme Smoked Fish -NY 239 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maplehurst Bakeries 239 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dunkirk Specialty Steel 239 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 Synergy Holdings Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bishop Cabinets 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Element Bozeman 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Interstate Construction, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Milford Hospital 239 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10300 Darien 239 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10118 Silver Spring 239 FTE
NAT-SIZE 214 - Plainfield IL 239 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, 2021, 2020, 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.