Interactive museums · Illinois

Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc.

Name: Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Rockford, IL · ~49 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.9
Avg TCR: 3.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc. runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Interactive museums workplace, earning a grade A.

Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc.: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Interactive museums BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc. safety composite

Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2017→2022

Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc. injury rate improved

Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.8 from 1.8 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.8 · 2018=1.8 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Rockford, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #1/12
PHOTO Museum of the City o…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Museum of the City of New York (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc. averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Interactive museums BLS benchmark).

Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc. TCR series: 2017=1.8 · 2018=1.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.1

Where Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc. falls in its industry

246 Interactive museums establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 12 Interactive museums employers in Illinois.

Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc. (49 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, Inc. has fewer employees than the Interactive museums median and a lower 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
2022	0.0	0.0	0	0
2021	0.0	0.0	0	0
2018	1.8	1.8	1	0
2017	1.8	0.0	0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · IL · Rockford

246 Interactive museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 405 employers in Rockford, IL · 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	Museum of the City of New York	NEW YORK, NY	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Science Museum Oklahoma	OKLAHOMA CITY, OK	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Alan Entertainment Holdings, LLC	BRANSON, MO	0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Boller Construction Co., Inc.	WAUKEGAN	49 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Performance Pipelining INC	OTTAWA	49 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM. Aupperle & Sons, Inc.	MORTON	49 FTE
STATE-SIZE	RI Glass Group	ROCK ISLAND	49 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ILRKF - ROCKFORD AIR HUB	Rockford	2,634 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Swedish American Hospital - 4800	Rockford	2,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PCI Pharma Services Rockford	Rockford	2,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SwedishAmerican Hospital	Rockford	1,855 FTE
NAT-TCR	Printed Circuits	Bloomington, MN	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	TxWU Underground	Denton, TX	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rhenus	Bowling Green, KY	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Polyone Seabrook TX	Seabrook, TX	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Boomers Modesto	Modesto, CA	49 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lancaster Mold	Lancaster, PA	49 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Quality Controlled Floor Systems, LLC	High Point, NC	49 FTE
NAT-SIZE	First Student	Oak Park, MI	49 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: 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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