Contemporary art museums · Illinois

Museum of Contemporary Art

Chicago, IL · ~190 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Museum of Contemporary Art runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Contemporary art museums workplace, earning a grade B.

Museum of Contemporary Art: 2.2 TCR = 71% of Contemporary art museums BLS 3.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Museum of Contemporary Art safety composite

Museum of Contemporary Art scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Museum of Contemporary Art: 1.4 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art's TCR rose 1.9 from 1.4 in 2018 to 3.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 71% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO Tellus Science Museum
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~190 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tellus Science Museum (0.0 TCR gap)

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Museum of Contemporary Art in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Museum of Contemporary Art averages 2.2 TCR (71% of the Contemporary art museums BLS benchmark).

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

Museum of Contemporary Art TCR series: 2018=1.4 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.1

Where Museum of Contemporary Art falls in its industry

246 Contemporary art museums establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 12 Contemporary art museums employers in Illinois.

Museum of Contemporary Art (190 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art (190 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Museum of Contemporary Art has more employees than the Contemporary 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 3.3 3.3 3 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2022 2.7 0.9 3 0 0
2021 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2020 2.4 0.8 3 0 0
2019 3.1 2.3 4 0 0
2018 1.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · IL · Chicago

246 Contemporary art museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 Tellus Science Museum 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Atomic Museum Foundation 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detroit Institute of Arts 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle Art Museum 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Obrien Water Reclamation Plant 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landmarc, LLC 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herff Jones Cap and Gowns Champaign 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herff Jones - Champaign 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR SODEXO AT Grand Canyon Univ Fresh Fusion 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Shenandoah Operations 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Thomas Concrete of Georgia Cumming 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Air, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE American BD Company North 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zuckerman Family Farms 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Cottages at Garden Grove 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE CS Wholesale Grocers : Kapolei (Hanua), HI (DC) 190 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, 2020, 2019, 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.