Botanical gardens · Ohio

Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

Columbus, OH · ~161 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Botanical gardens workplace, earning a grade C.

Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens: 2.5 TCR = 81% of Botanical gardens BLS 3.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens safety composite

Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2018→2024

Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens injury rate improved

Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens's TCR fell 0.4 from 2.8 in 2018 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.8 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 81% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO Houston Arboretum
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Houston Arboretum (0.0 TCR gap)

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Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens averages 2.5 TCR (81% of the Botanical gardens BLS benchmark).

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

Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens TCR series: 2018=2.8 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=0 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.1

Where Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens falls in its industry

174 Botanical gardens establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 9 Botanical gardens employers in Ohio.

Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens (161 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 05001,0001,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens (161 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens has more employees than the Botanical gardens median and a lower 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 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2023 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2022 2.8 1.9 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.2 4.1 6 0 0
2018 2.8 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · OH · Columbus

174 Botanical gardens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 Houston Arboretum 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR WOW 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Worth Botanic Garden 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Aquarium 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Transmission Op Ctr New Albany 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matrix5 Site Development 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trans Ash, Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apollo Home 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Amsted Rail Company, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR San Francisco Foods LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Caswell Developmental Center 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Roof Technologies LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kerry 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schultes Precision Manufacturing 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gk Machine Inc 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 495 161 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.