Natural history museums · California

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Santa Barbara, CA · ~106 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History runs at 260% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Natural history museums workplace, earning a grade F.

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: 8.1 TCR = 260% of Natural history museums BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History safety composite

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: 6.0 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History's TCR rose 4.2 from 6.0 in 2023 to 10.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 260% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #24/29
  • PHOTO Ripley Entertainment…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ripley Entertainment - Gatlinburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History averages 8.1 TCR (260% of the Natural history museums BLS benchmark).

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

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History TCR series: 2023=6 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 3.1

Where Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History falls in its industry

246 Natural history museums establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #24 safest of 29 Natural history museums employers in California.

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (106 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (106 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has more employees than the Natural history 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 10.2 0.0 7 0 0
2023 6.0 6.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · CA · Santa Barbara

246 Natural history museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 173 employers in Santa Barbara, 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 Ripley Entertainment - Gatlinburg 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denver Museum of Nature & Science 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ripley Entertainment - Myrtle Beach, SC 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE D & J Farm Management LLC 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robinson Calf Ranch 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monte Vista Farming Company LLC. 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Empire Farm Labor Contracting, Inc 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Barbara 10,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 3,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Barbara 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Green Santa Barbara 674 FTE
NAT-TCR Electron Beam Technologies, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Truewood by Merrill Henderson 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Txdel - Del Rio 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosecastle of Citrus 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Florala Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Worthington Steel Rome 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Granite Mesa Health Center 106 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.