Interactive museums · Tennessee

Creative Discovery Museum

Chattanooga, TN · ~60 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Creative Discovery Museum runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Interactive museums workplace, earning a grade D.

Creative Discovery Museum: 4.3 TCR = 138% of Interactive museums BLS 3.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Creative Discovery Museum safety composite

Creative Discovery Museum scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Creative Discovery Museum: 0.0 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2024

Creative Discovery Museum's TCR rose 10.6 from 0.0 in 2020 to 10.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 138% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO 4829-14085
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4829-14085 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Creative Discovery Museum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Creative Discovery Museum averages 4.3 TCR (138% of the Interactive museums BLS benchmark).

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

Creative Discovery Museum TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=10.6 · BLS 3.1

Where Creative Discovery Museum falls in its industry

246 Interactive museums establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Interactive museums employers in Tennessee.

Creative Discovery Museum (60 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Creative Discovery Museum
Creative Discovery Museum (60 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Creative Discovery Museum has fewer employees than the Interactive 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 10.6 6.4 5 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2022 9.0 2.2 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · TN · Chattanooga

246 Interactive museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 4829-14085 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Children's Museum of the Sequoias 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norton Simon Museum 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE MCMINNVILLE OFFICE 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Tennessee Public Utility District 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE SES Construction and Fuel Services LLC 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE RSS - Nashville Roofing & Sheet Metal 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Hilton Vancouver Washington 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 52nd Paint Central 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Coilplus, Inc. Ohio Division - Piqua 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Reinders-Mundelein 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Perna Finnigan, Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE A. Stucki Company Corporate Location 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weston 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dan's Overhead Doors & More 60 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, 2020. 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.