Natural science museums · Colorado

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Denver, CO · ~454 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Denver Museum of Nature & Science runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Natural science museums workplace, earning a grade F.

Denver Museum of Nature & Science: 8.1 TCR = 262% of Natural science museums BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Denver Museum of Nature & Science safety composite

Denver Museum of Nature & Science scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 35% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

Denver Museum of Nature & Science: 5.0 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2024

Denver Museum of Nature & Science's TCR rose 4.6 from 5.0 in 2016 to 9.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 262% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK P12
  • PHOTO Ripley Entertainment…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 101 inj
  • SIZE ~454 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ripley Entertainment - Gatlinburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Denver Museum of Nature & Science averages 8.1 TCR (262% of the Natural science museums BLS benchmark).

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

Denver Museum of Nature & Science TCR series: 2016=5 · 2021=9.3 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 3.1

Where Denver Museum of Nature & Science falls in its industry

246 Natural science museums establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Denver Museum of Nature & Science (454 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Denver Museum of Nature & Science (454 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Denver Museum of Nature & Science has more 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 9.6 2.0 31 8 0
2023 8.5 1.1 28 4 0
2021 9.3 2.3 25 4 0
2016 5.0 0.6 17 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · CO · Denver

246 Natural science museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 1,757 employers in Denver, CO · 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 Ripley Entertainment - Gatlinburg 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ripley Entertainment - Myrtle Beach, SC 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 826 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colorado Convention Center 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Little Nell Hotel 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN DEN 9,832 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-DEN 6,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN - Airport United Airlines Offices 5,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR CO-01 4,581 FTE
NAT-TCR Buckman's Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Weldors & Machinists, Inc 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR SupplyHouse Texas LLC 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NHM, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE double kwik Justiceville 454 FTE
NAT-SIZE double kwik West Liberty 454 FTE
NAT-SIZE Twinsburg Family Hlth Ctr 454 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinckneyville Correctional Center 454 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, 2016. 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.