Botanical gardens · Tennessee

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art

Nashville, TN · ~143 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Botanical gardens workplace, earning a grade F.

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art: 7.2 TCR = 233% of Botanical gardens BLS 3.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art safety composite

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2016→2023

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art injury rate improved

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art's TCR fell 2.7 from 6.1 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.1 · 2017=11.4 · 2018=11.4 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Nashville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 233% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK P43
  • PHOTO John Ball Zoo
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: John Ball Zoo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art averages 7.2 TCR (233% of the Botanical gardens BLS benchmark).

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

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=11.4 · 2018=11.4 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=3.5 · BLS 3.1

Where Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art falls in its industry

174 Botanical gardens establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art (143 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art
Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art (143 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art has fewer employees than the Botanical gardens median and a higher 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
2023 3.5 2.6 4 0 0
2022 3.8 3.8 3 1 0
2018 11.4 9.9 8 0 0
2017 11.4 9.9 8 0 0
2016 6.1 6.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · TN · Nashville

174 Botanical gardens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, TN · 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 John Ball Zoo 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prospect Park Zoo 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Audubon Zoo 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Michigan Horticultural Society 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smithport Cabinetry Partners 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4048 Murfreesboro Container 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE RMA Manchester 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Xtreme Marine Corporation 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parallon Enterprises, LLC 15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY 10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Core-Mark Fort Worth 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Colwell, Inc 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4291 YUCAIPA, CA 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 299 - Corporate 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Magnolia Plant 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centre Pointe-SP 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hallmark Nursing Center 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daniel Wright Junior High School 143 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: 2023, 2022, 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.