Natural history museums · Georgia

Fernbank Museum of Natural History

Atlanta, GA · ~128 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fernbank Museum of Natural History runs at 272% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Natural history museums workplace, earning a grade F.

Fernbank Museum of Natural History: 8.4 TCR = 272% of Natural history museums BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fernbank Museum of Natural History safety composite

Fernbank Museum of Natural History scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Fernbank Museum of Natural History: 4.5 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2024

Fernbank Museum of Natural History's TCR rose 7.8 from 4.5 in 2023 to 12.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Atlanta, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 272% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK P11
  • PHOTO Children's Museum of…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fernbank Museum of Natural History in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fernbank Museum of Natural History averages 8.4 TCR (272% of the Natural history museums BLS benchmark).

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

Fernbank Museum of Natural History TCR series: 2023=4.5 · 2024=12.3 · BLS 3.1

Where Fernbank Museum of Natural History falls in its industry

246 Natural history museums establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Fernbank Museum of Natural History (128 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Fernbank Museum of Natural History (128 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Fernbank Museum of Natural History has more employees than the Natural history 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 12.3 4.9 3 2 0
2023 4.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · GA · Atlanta

246 Natural history museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 1,907 employers in Atlanta, GA · 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 Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ripley Entertainment - Myrtle Beach, SC 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CuriOdyssey 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson Japanese Gardens 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hoboken Fresh Egg Production 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hemma Concrete Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ely Concrete Construction 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Automated Logic Controls (Indianapolis) 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Insight Global 20,586 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - ATL Airport 19,423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - ATL- Airport 18,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northside 13,761 FTE
NAT-TCR Paragon Tempered Glass, LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR McKay's Market Coos Bay #1 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Interpak Inc 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Hattiesburg II 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE SIMONA Boltaron Inc. 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Window Technologies Inc 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salem, or Container Plant 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scapa Tapes NA, Inc 128 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. 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.