Natural history museums · California

San Diego Natural History Museum

San Diego, CA · ~182 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

San Diego Natural History Museum runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Natural history museums workplace, earning a grade C.

San Diego Natural History Museum: 3.1 TCR = 102% of Natural history museums BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

San Diego Natural History Museum safety composite

San Diego Natural History Museum scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

San Diego Natural History Museum: 1.2 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2024

San Diego Natural History Museum's TCR rose 3.8 from 1.2 in 2023 to 5.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 102% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #10/29
  • PHOTO Philbrook Museum of …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~182 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Philbrook Museum of Art (0.1 TCR gap)

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San Diego Natural History Museum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows San Diego Natural History Museum averages 3.1 TCR (102% of the Natural history museums BLS benchmark).

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

San Diego Natural History Museum TCR series: 2023=1.2 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.1

Where San Diego Natural History Museum falls in its industry

246 Natural history museums establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 29 Natural history museums employers in California.

San Diego Natural History Museum (182 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum (182 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

San Diego Natural History Museum has more employees than the Natural history 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 5.1 2.0 5 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · CA · San Diego

246 Natural history museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, CA · 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 Philbrook Museum of Art 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orlando Museum of Art, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Connecticut Science Center 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tulsa Children's Museum 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ATI Ag Services, LLC 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTERN WTR DIST HDQ 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thorpe Design Inc 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turlock South Processing Plant 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Glanbia Gooding Transportation 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kent City 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Peace Village 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Atomatic Mechanical Services, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CCL Label Charlotte 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Good Day Farm Missouri 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE DH Pace Company Inc. dba Ankmar - Denver 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dynapower Company 182 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.