Botanical gardens · Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

Oakdale, PA · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.0
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden runs at 614% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Botanical gardens workplace, earning a grade F.

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden: 19.0 TCR = 614% of Botanical gardens BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden safety composite

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.2

2023→2024

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden injury rate improved

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden's TCR fell 7.2 from 22.6 in 2023 to 15.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 22.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=22.6 · 2024=15.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Oakdale, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.0 · 614% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Los Angeles Zoo and …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens (0.6 TCR gap)

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Pittsburgh Botanic Garden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pittsburgh Botanic Garden averages 19.0 TCR (614% of the Botanical gardens BLS benchmark).

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

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden TCR series: 2023=22.6 · 2024=15.4 · BLS 3.1

Where Pittsburgh Botanic Garden falls in its industry

174 Botanical gardens establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Botanical gardens employers in Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden (44 employees, TCR 19.0) 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 Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden (44 employees, TCR 19.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden has fewer employees than the Botanical gardens median and a higher 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 15.4 3.1 5 0 0
2023 22.6 0.0 3 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · PA · Oakdale

174 Botanical gardens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 14 employers in Oakdale, PA · 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 Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SeaQuest Layton 19.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hidden Valley Animal Adventure 17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SeaQuest Fort Worth 17.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milton Grove Egg 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Donegal Egg 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESSC West Shore Service Center 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUNSC Sunbury Service Center 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chartwell PA 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nappies Food Service 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Imperial Shop 'n Save 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR ATI Powder Metals - Oakdale 86 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Middletown - Parks & Recreation Maintenance 19.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Warren Central Kitchen 19.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Waverly Inn 19.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0403 Dallas 19.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Zook Enterprises, LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kinser & Kinser 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE D&D Global, Inc 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kettle Park Senior Living, INC. 44 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. 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.