Historical museums · Virginia

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest

Forest, VA · ~25 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Historical museums workplace, earning a grade D.

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest: 4.2 TCR = 135% of Historical museums BLS 3.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest safety composite

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest: 5.4 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.6× in 2022

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest's TCR rose 1.3 from 5.4 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Forest, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 135% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Living History Farms…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Living History Farms Foundation (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest averages 4.2 TCR (135% of the Historical museums BLS benchmark).

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

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=6.7 · BLS 3.1

Where The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest falls in its industry

246 Historical museums establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Historical museums employers in Virginia.

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest (25 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest
The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest (25 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest has fewer employees than the Historical 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
2022 6.7 6.7 1 0 0
2021 6.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 6.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.4 5.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · VA · Forest

246 Historical museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 37 employers in Forest, VA · 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 Living History Farms Foundation 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Corporation 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Children's Museum of Santa Barbara, DBA MOXI, The WOlf Museum of Exploration + Innovation 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hagley Museum and Library 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowman Orchards, LLc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle W Farms II, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manufacturing Plant 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bowman Fruit Sales LLC 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR WoodWick Manufacturing 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentry 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. 218 FTE
NAT-TCR Salt Lake City Ut Depot 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincare, Inc. - DBA J&L Medical Services - Middlebury, CT 90-01-88-11 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodbury TRIA 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PCI Calvert City ISS 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madison Wi (Bartillon Dr) Depot 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloomington Ca Depot 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daniels Wv Depot 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oshkosh Wi Depot 25 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.