Botanical gardens · Florida

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Name: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Coral Gables, FL · ~89 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.9
Avg TCR: 3.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Botanical gardens workplace, earning a grade F.

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden: 6.9 TCR = 223% of Botanical gardens BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden safety composite

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 6.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers
DART rate: F 10.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden: 1.7 → 12.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.53× in 2024

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden's TCR rose 10.4 from 1.7 in 2021 to 12.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Coral Gables, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 223% of ind

DART 10.6 DART
RANK #4/9
PHOTO Lee G Simmons Conser…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lee G Simmons Conservation Park & Wildlife Safari (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden averages 6.9 TCR (223% of the Botanical gardens BLS benchmark).

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden TCR series: 2021=1.7 · 2024=12.1 · BLS 3.1

Where Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden falls in its industry

174 Botanical gardens establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Botanical gardens employers in Florida.

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (89 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden has fewer employees than the Botanical gardens median and a higher 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	Fatalities
2024	12.1	10.6	8	0	0
2021	1.7	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · FL · Coral Gables

174 Botanical gardens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 71 employers in Coral Gables, FL · 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	Lee G Simmons Conservation Park & Wildlife Safari	ASHLAND, NE	6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Seattle Center	SEATTLE, WA	7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Akron Zoological Park	AKRON, OH	6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	The Florida Aquarium	TAMPA, FL	7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Bunnell	BUNNELL	89 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Coastal Construction - Surf Club	SURFSIDE	89 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mental Health Diversion Facility	OPALOCKA	89 FTE
STATE-SIZE	FIU Sipa II Phase 2	MIAMI	89 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Miami Hospital	Coral Gables	7,743 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Miami	Coral Gables	7,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Miami Medical School	Coral Gables	6,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MasTec MNS Wireline	Coral Gables	2,842 FTE
NAT-TCR	Wright Pharma	Modesto, CA	6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Charcuterie Artisans (Daniele Inc)	Mapleville, RI	6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Amazon.com Services LLC - DRT4	Mills River, NC	6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	McCallie School	Chattanooga, TN	6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hormann LLC - Montgomery	Montgomery, IL	89 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Delta Air Lines - GRR	Grand Rapids, MI	89 FTE
NAT-SIZE	General Atomics - Poway - A25	Poway, CA	89 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Michigan Caterpillar Lansing	Lansing, MI	89 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, 2021. 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.