Museums · Connecticut

Mystic Seaport Museum

Mystic, CT · ~188 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mystic Seaport Museum runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Museums workplace, earning a grade D.

Mystic Seaport Museum: 5.5 TCR = 178% of Museums BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mystic Seaport Museum safety composite

Mystic Seaport Museum scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−3.8

2021→2024

Mystic Seaport Museum injury rate improved

Mystic Seaport Museum's TCR fell 3.8 from 8.1 in 2021 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.1 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Mystic, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 178% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Plimoth Patuxet Muse…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mystic Seaport Museum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mystic Seaport Museum averages 5.5 TCR (178% of the Museums BLS benchmark).

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

Mystic Seaport Museum TCR series: 2021=8.1 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.1

Where Mystic Seaport Museum falls in its industry

246 Museums establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Museums employers in Connecticut.

Mystic Seaport Museum (188 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Mystic Seaport Museum
Mystic Seaport Museum (188 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Mystic Seaport Museum has more employees than the 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 4.2 3.6 7 0 0
2023 5.3 2.0 8 0 0
2022 4.6 4.6 5 1 0
2021 8.1 0.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · CT · Mystic

246 Museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 28 employers in Mystic, CT · 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 Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, DBA ECHO 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Rapids Public Museum 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison Children's Museum 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE C.H. Nickerson, & Co., Inc. 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carla's Pasta 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Vincent's Medical Center - Westport Campus 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurel Ridge Health Care Center 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mystic Aquarium/Ocean Blue Catering 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR StoneRidge Senior Care, LLC 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mystic Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pendleton Health and Rehabilitation Center 141 FTE
NAT-TCR R.D. Graham Electric LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Downtown DC BID Corporation 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sweeney Drywall Finishes Corp 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor Oil 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Community Progress Council, Inc. 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lima Oh 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Care One at New Bedford 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE TRM Manufacturing, Inc. 188 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.