Natural science museums · Alabama

Cook Museum of Natural Science

Decatur, AL · ~77 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cook Museum of Natural Science runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Natural science museums workplace, earning a grade D.

Cook Museum of Natural Science: 4.0 TCR = 129% of Natural science museums BLS 3.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cook Museum of Natural Science safety composite

Cook Museum of Natural Science scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Cook Museum of Natural Science: 1.8 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2024

Cook Museum of Natural Science's TCR rose 6.2 from 1.8 in 2019 to 8.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Decatur, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 129% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO The Leonardo
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Leonardo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cook Museum of Natural Science in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cook Museum of Natural Science averages 4.0 TCR (129% of the Natural science museums BLS benchmark).

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

Cook Museum of Natural Science TCR series: 2019=1.8 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 3.1

Where Cook Museum of Natural Science falls in its industry

246 Natural science museums establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Natural science museums employers in Alabama.

Cook Museum of Natural Science (77 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cook Museum of Natural Science
Cook Museum of Natural Science (77 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Cook Museum of Natural Science has fewer employees than the Natural science 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 Fatalities
2024 8.1 6.0 4 0 0
2023 5.9 1.9 3 0 0
2022 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2021 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · AL · Decatur

246 Natural science museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 239 employers in Decatur, AL · 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 The Leonardo 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Iowa Children's Museum 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Space & Rocket Center 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minneapolis Institute of Art 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Jefferson Office - APC 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vulcan Materials Asphalt & Construction, LLC - AL - Asphalt & Construction 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nichols Concrete Holdings LLC 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE US009: Birmingham 205 - SG 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain - Decatur 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur processing plant 885 FTE
CITY-NEAR ULA-Decatur 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Fresh Plant 671 FTE
NAT-TCR Jobsite Supply 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1448 - Lino Lakes 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR UMASS Dart Res Din 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stroudsburg School Dis 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Century Metals & Supplies, Inc 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schmalz Custom Landscaping Inc 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3225 - Long Beach Bixby 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arbor Care Centers - Valhaven 77 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, 2019. 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.