Natural history museums · California

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum

Los Angeles, CA · ~400 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Natural history museums workplace, earning a grade D.

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum: 4.6 TCR = 148% of Natural history museums BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum safety composite

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum: 3.3 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2023

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum's TCR rose 2.7 from 3.3 in 2018 to 5.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 148% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #16/29
  • PHOTO The High Desert Museum
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~400 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The High Desert Museum (0.0 TCR gap)

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Los Angeles County Natural History Museum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Los Angeles County Natural History Museum averages 4.6 TCR (148% of the Natural history museums BLS benchmark).

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

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum TCR series: 2018=3.3 · 2023=5.9 · BLS 3.1

Where Los Angeles County Natural History Museum falls in its industry

246 Natural history museums establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #16 safest of 29 Natural history museums employers in California.

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum (400 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Los Angeles County Natural History Museum
Los Angeles County Natural History Museum (400 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum has more employees than the Natural history 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
2023 5.9 5.3 14 5 0
2018 3.3 2.7 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · CA · Los Angeles

246 Natural history museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, CA · 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 High Desert Museum 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wadsworth Atheneum 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ohio History Connection 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Foundation Museum Support, LLC 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Grower 400 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redlands - Bld: 0687 - 15 400 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chollas - Public Utilities 400 FTE
STATE-SIZE SPI - Red Bluff Millwork 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR 30484 - Capstone Mclane Cumberland 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospice of Southwest Ohio 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Steel Georgetown 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ag Processing Hastings Refinery 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tyler Pipe Company 400 FTE
NAT-SIZE KEEN, Inc. 400 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heart Hospital of Austin 400 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Milwaukee Wi 400 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.