Art museums · Massachusetts

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Boston, MA · ~194 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Art museums workplace, earning a grade B.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: 1.8 TCR = 58% of Art museums BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum safety composite

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum held a steady TCR band

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.8 in 2021 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.8 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Boston, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #1/14
  • PHOTO Munson Williams Proc…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~194 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Munson Williams Proctor Institute (0.0 TCR gap)

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum averages 1.8 TCR (58% of the Art museums BLS benchmark).

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

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum TCR series: 2021=0.8 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 3.1

Where Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum falls in its industry

246 Art museums establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 14 Art museums employers in Massachusetts.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (194 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (194 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has more employees than the Art 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
2024 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2023 4.9 4.1 4 2 0
2022 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2021 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · MA · Boston

246 Art museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 577 employers in Boston, MA · 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 Munson Williams Proctor Institute 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Library and Research Center 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Friends of Dinosaur Ridge 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites (ISMHS) 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE J&G Foods Inc 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE MA048 Leominster Cutlery (Dixie) 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraft Power Coporation 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE 08012 - Store # 8012 Twin CityStore 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR Massachusetts General Hospital 26,855 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham and Women's Hospital 19,183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham and Womens Hospital 19,004 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham & Women's Hospital 18,260 FTE
NAT-TCR 050w Lci 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR East Alabama Lumber 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 61st District Court 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - MIA5 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE S & S Transport Inc 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Utility Services, LLC 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Verano NJ CPG 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ventra Kansas 194 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, 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.