Art museums · Massachusetts

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Boston, MA · ~722 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Museum of Fine Arts Boston runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Art museums workplace, earning a grade D.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 4.8 TCR = 155% of Art museums BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Museum of Fine Arts Boston safety composite

Museum of Fine Arts Boston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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 Fine Arts Boston: 4.2 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2019

Museum of Fine Arts Boston's TCR rose 0.9 from 4.2 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Boston, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 155% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #8/14
  • PHOTO MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~722 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (0.0 TCR gap)

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Museum of Fine Arts Boston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Museum of Fine Arts Boston averages 4.8 TCR (155% of the Art museums BLS benchmark).

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

Museum of Fine Arts Boston TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=5 · BLS 3.1

Where Museum of Fine Arts Boston falls in its industry

246 Art museums establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 14 Art museums employers in Massachusetts.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston (722 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Fine Arts Boston
Museum of Fine Arts Boston (722 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Museum of Fine Arts Boston has more employees than the Art 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
2019 5.0 1.9 24 3 0
2018 5.2 1.9 22 5 0
2016 4.2 1.8 16 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · MA · Boston

246 Art museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 577 employers in Boston, MA · 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 MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Entertrainment Junction 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kidspace Children's Museum 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Color Factory (Happy Factory) 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon Robotics BOS12 722 FTE
STATE-SIZE FMC - Baystate Franklin Medical Center 722 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Balance Athletics Lawrence Mill 723 FTE
STATE-SIZE CFS-1 721 FTE
CITY-NEAR Massachusetts General Hospital 26,855 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham and Women's Hospital 19,183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham and Womens Hospital 19,004 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham & Women's Hospital 18,260 FTE
NAT-TCR Eastern Metal Supply of Texas 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Marion Industrial Center 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 285 State Street Unit 13 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 1590 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. 722 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenville Technology Incorporated - Greenville 722 FTE
NAT-SIZE Christian Care Management Inc 722 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adient LLC 722 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.