Botanical gardens · Missouri

Missouri Botanical Gardens

Saint Louis, MO · ~530 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Missouri Botanical Gardens runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Botanical gardens workplace, earning a grade B.

Missouri Botanical Gardens: 2.1 TCR = 68% of Botanical gardens BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Missouri Botanical Gardens safety composite

Missouri Botanical Gardens scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Missouri Botanical Gardens: 0.8 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.59× in 2024

Missouri Botanical Gardens's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.8 in 2021 to 3.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Saint Louis, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 68% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO Rolling Hills Zoo
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~530 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rolling Hills Zoo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Missouri Botanical Gardens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Missouri Botanical Gardens averages 2.1 TCR (68% of the Botanical gardens BLS benchmark).

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

Missouri Botanical Gardens TCR series: 2021=0.8 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.1

Where Missouri Botanical Gardens falls in its industry

174 Botanical gardens establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Botanical gardens employers in Missouri.

Missouri Botanical Gardens (530 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 05001,0001,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Missouri Botanical Gardens
Missouri Botanical Gardens (530 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Missouri Botanical Gardens has more employees than the Botanical gardens median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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 3.8 3.3 15 2 0
2023 2.1 2.0 15 2 0
2022 1.7 1.4 6 0 0
2021 0.8 0.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · MO · Saint Louis

174 Botanical gardens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 448 employers in Saint Louis, MO · 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 Rolling Hills Zoo 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adventure Aquarium 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foster Botanical Gardens 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roseville LLC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE MiTek, Inc. 529 FTE
STATE-SIZE MO_Town Country_941 Charter Commons_42201000 532 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City CDS-Early Phase 527 FTE
STATE-SIZE AWG, Springfield 527 FTE
CITY-NEAR MO002 12,691 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barnes-Jewish Hospital 9,005 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL ST LOUIS 5,653 FTE
CITY-NEAR Checkerboard Square 3,464 FTE
NAT-TCR Thompson's Veterinary Supplies 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen Power Systems, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Merit Health Biloxi - EVS 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Scotts Company - Waverly 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE AGC Biologics - Bothell 530 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - PHL4 530 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter 530 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sweet Street Desserts Reading 530 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.