Museums · Michigan

Grand Rapids Public Museum

Grand Rapids, MI · ~114 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grand Rapids Public Museum runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Museums workplace, earning a grade D.

Grand Rapids Public Museum: 5.5 TCR = 177% of Museums BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grand Rapids Public Museum safety composite

Grand Rapids Public Museum scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−11.9

2018→2024

Grand Rapids Public Museum injury rate improved

Grand Rapids Public Museum's TCR fell 11.9 from 14.0 in 2018 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=14.0 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 177% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Plimoth Patuxet Muse…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grand Rapids Public Museum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grand Rapids Public Museum averages 5.5 TCR (177% of the Museums BLS benchmark).

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

Grand Rapids Public Museum TCR series: 2018=14 · 2022=4 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.1

Where Grand Rapids Public Museum falls in its industry

246 Museums establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Museums employers in Michigan.

Grand Rapids Public Museum (114 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Grand Rapids Public Museum
Grand Rapids Public Museum (114 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Grand Rapids Public Museum has more employees than the 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 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 1 1 0
2022 4.0 1.0 4 0 0
2018 14.0 2.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · MI · Grand Rapids

246 Museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, MI · 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 Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mystic Seaport Museum 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, DBA ECHO 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison Children's Museum 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Infrastructure Alternatives Inc 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Detroit 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Boiler & Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR Food Bank of Wyoming 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR D1230 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Google - Bay Area 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Five Star Mechanical, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Best Western Fairmont 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Strickland Waterproofing Company 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cerenovus Miami 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spray Products 114 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, 2018. 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.