Museums · Pennsylvania

Independence Seaport Museum

Philadelphia, PA · ~44 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Independence Seaport Museum runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Museums workplace, earning a grade C.

Independence Seaport Museum: 2.8 TCR = 89% of Museums BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Independence Seaport Museum safety composite

Independence Seaport Museum scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Independence Seaport Museum: 2.2 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2023

Independence Seaport Museum's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.2 in 2019 to 2.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Philadelphia, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 89% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Institute of Contemp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Institute of Contemporary Art (0.0 TCR gap)

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Independence Seaport Museum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Independence Seaport Museum averages 2.8 TCR (89% of the Museums BLS benchmark).

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

Independence Seaport Museum TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2020=3.3 · 2023=2.8 · BLS 3.1

Where Independence Seaport Museum falls in its industry

246 Museums establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Museums employers in Pennsylvania.

Independence Seaport Museum (44 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Independence Seaport Museum
Independence Seaport Museum (44 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Independence Seaport Museum has fewer employees than the 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 Fatalities
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2020 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · PA · Philadelphia

246 Museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,431 employers in Philadelphia, PA · 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 Institute of Contemporary Art 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Museum of Mathematics 11 E 26th Street New York, NY 10010 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota Historical Society 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sioux City Art Center 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milton Grove Egg 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Donegal Egg 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESSC West Shore Service Center 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUNSC Sunbury Service Center 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR FIVE BELOW INC 19,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital of University of Pennsylvania 13,423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Hospital 9,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Campus 9,129 FTE
NAT-TCR New Philadelphia Svc Bldg 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Carbon Valley Service Center 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 540 White Plains Rd, Ste 300 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Space Craft MFG 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE GA Foods_US Others 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weststar Property Management 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cadillac Plating Corporation 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ongna Wood 1 44 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: 2023, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.