Botanical gardens · Ohio

Cleveland Botanical Garden

Name: Cleveland Botanical Garden Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Cleveland, OH · ~63 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.3
Avg TCR: 3.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Cleveland Botanical Garden runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Botanical gardens workplace, earning a grade C.

Cleveland Botanical Garden: 3.3 TCR = 108% of Botanical gardens BLS 3.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cleveland Botanical Garden safety composite

Cleveland Botanical Garden scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% 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).

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

Cleveland Botanical Garden: 2.1 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Cleveland Botanical Garden's TCR rose 3.2 from 2.1 in 2017 to 5.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Cleveland, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 108% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #2/9
PHOTO Seattle Aquarium
BOOK 7y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seattle Aquarium (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Ohio employers → · Look up another →

This site

3.3
Seattle Aquari

3.3
Dallas Arboret

3.3
New England Aq

3.3
OHP

3.2

What this shows Cleveland Botanical Garden averages 3.3 TCR (108% of the Botanical gardens BLS benchmark).

Cleveland Botanical Garden TCR series: 2017=2.1 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.7 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.1

Where Cleveland Botanical Garden falls in its industry

174 Botanical gardens establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Botanical gardens employers in Ohio.

Cleveland Botanical Garden (63 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Cleveland Botanical Garden has fewer 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
2024	5.3	0.0	3	0
2023	3.9	3.9	2	0
2022	4.3	2.1	1	1
2020	4.7	0.0	2	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0
2018	3.1	1.6	2	0
2017	2.1	0.0	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · OH · Cleveland

174 Botanical gardens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, OH · 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	Seattle Aquarium	SEATTLE, WA	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden	DALLAS, TX	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	New England Aquarium	BOSTON, MA	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	OHP	SPRINGFIELD, MO	3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Cleveland	RICHFIELD	63 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Nicholson Builders	COLUMBUS	63 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Buckeye Pipeline Construction, Inc	WOOSTER	63 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NORTHSTAR ASPHALT, INC.	NORTH CANTON	63 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cleveland Clinic Main Campus	Cleveland	25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Cleveland	20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cleveland Medical Center	Cleveland	10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND	Cleveland	3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR	Birmingham Electrical Contractors, Inc.	Bessemer, AL	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	FCSWDD-Lander	Lander, WY	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	University Medical Center	New Orleans, LA	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	CY Farms, LLC	Elba, NY	3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	SMM Group Fairless Shredder	Morrisville, PA	63 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Seats Incorporated Chariton Iowa	Chariton, IA	63 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Burrow Global Construction, LLC	Deer Park, TX	63 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ultra - Campanelli Drive	Braintree, MA	63 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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