Historical museums · Iowa

Living History Farms Foundation

Urbandale, IA · ~38 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Living History Farms Foundation runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Historical museums workplace, earning a grade D.

Living History Farms Foundation: 4.2 TCR = 135% of Historical museums BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Living History Farms Foundation safety composite

Living History Farms Foundation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−5.2

2021→2024

Living History Farms Foundation injury rate improved

Living History Farms Foundation's TCR fell 5.2 from 5.2 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.2 · 2022=11.6 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Urbandale, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 135% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO The Corporation for …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Living History Farms Foundation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Living History Farms Foundation averages 4.2 TCR (135% of the Historical museums BLS benchmark).

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

Living History Farms Foundation TCR series: 2021=5.2 · 2022=11.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.1

Where Living History Farms Foundation falls in its industry

246 Historical museums establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Historical museums employers in Iowa.

Living History Farms Foundation (38 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Living History Farms Foundation
Living History Farms Foundation (38 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Living History Farms Foundation has fewer employees than the Historical 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 11.6 7.7 3 0 0
2021 5.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · IA · Urbandale

246 Historical museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 104 employers in Urbandale, IA · 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 The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Corporation 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Children's Museum of Santa Barbara, DBA MOXI, The WOlf Museum of Exploration + Innovation 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hagley Museum and Library 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2050-Clarion, IA 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waukon Feed Ranch Agronomy Center 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Production 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rognes Corp 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISG Urbandale 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Manufacturing Corporation 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Urbandale/Nevada 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR URBANDALE IA 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Ergon Trucking, Inc. - Houston 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dfa Distributing West - Las Vegas Nv 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Spec Personnel, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR R.N.T. Supply, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Sky Linen & Uniform 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roosevelt University 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reliable Electric 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chemung County Nursing Facility 38 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.