Natural history museums · Illinois

The Field Museum

Chicago, IL · ~535 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Field Museum runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Natural history museums workplace, earning a grade A.

The Field Museum: 1.0 TCR = 31% of Natural history museums BLS 3.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Field Museum safety composite

The Field Museum scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

The Field Museum held a steady TCR band

The Field Museum's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.8 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.8 · 2017=1.3 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 31% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO Barber Vintage Motor…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~535 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Field Museum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Field Museum averages 1.0 TCR (31% of the Natural history museums BLS benchmark).

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

The Field Museum TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=1.3 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.1 · BLS 3.1

Where The Field Museum falls in its industry

246 Natural history museums establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 12 Natural history museums employers in Illinois.

The Field Museum (535 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Field Museum
The Field Museum (535 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

The Field 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
2022 1.1 1.1 5 0 0
2021 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2020 1.1 0.8 3 1 0
2017 1.3 1.0 5 0 0
2016 0.8 0.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · IL · Chicago

246 Natural history museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Museum of Flight 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chrysler Museum of Art 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alan Entertainment Holdings, LLC 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1953-1111 535 FTE
STATE-SIZE Customer Service Crystal Lake Product Center 535 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockport Township High School District 205 East Campus 535 FTE
STATE-SIZE Park District 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Unigen Corporation 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Weir Minerals 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Glacier Canyon Lodge, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lenexa SAFC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southwestern Medical Center 535 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco Lincoln, NE 535 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6925-LAS 535 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Camillus 535 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, 2017, 2016. 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.