Natural history museums · California

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum

Los Anegeles, CA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Natural history museums workplace, earning a grade C.

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum: 3.0 TCR = 96% of Natural history museums BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum safety composite

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−6.0

2018→2023

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum injury rate improved

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum's TCR fell 6.0 from 6.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Los Anegeles, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 96% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/29
  • PHOTO Minnesota Historical…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Minnesota Historical Society (0.0 TCR gap)

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La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows La Brea Tar Pits and Museum averages 3.0 TCR (96% of the Natural history museums BLS benchmark).

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

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum TCR series: 2018=6 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.1

Where La Brea Tar Pits and Museum falls in its industry

246 Natural history museums establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 29 Natural history museums employers in California.

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum (35 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum (35 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum has fewer employees than the Natural history 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.0 6.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · CA · Los Anegeles

246 Natural history museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 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 Minnesota Historical Society 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skirball 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR OMSI 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The National Flight Academy, LLC 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION FABRICATION/CARPENTRY/PAINTING/ELECTRIC/PIPE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meek Ranches LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresick Farms, Inc. - Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfsen Inc 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Eliot Wright Workroom, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Anchor Packaging Inc. Jonesboro 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Garland Dirt Cheap 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Saco/Biddeford - BMD 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Center for Primary Care & Surg 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coastal Flow Gas Measurement, Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE SNL Distribution Services Corp-Batesville 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rose Court Assisted Living 35 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.