Employer · Pennsylvania

The Franklin Institute

Philadelphia, PA · ~214 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Franklin Institute runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

The Franklin Institute: 6.8 TCR = 220% of industry BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Franklin Institute safety composite

The Franklin Institute scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

The Franklin Institute held a steady TCR band

The Franklin Institute's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.8 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.8 · 2023=14.7 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Philadelphia, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 220% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Virginia Living Museum
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~214 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Virginia Living Museum (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Franklin Institute in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Franklin Institute averages 6.8 TCR (220% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

The Franklin Institute TCR series: 2019=2.8 · 2023=14.7 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.1

Where The Franklin Institute falls in its industry

246 industry establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 industry employers in Pennsylvania.

The Franklin Institute (214 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute (214 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

The Franklin Institute has more employees than the industry 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 3.0 0.0 4 0 0
2023 14.7 0.0 6 0 0
2019 2.8 1.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · PA · Philadelphia

246 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,431 employers in Philadelphia, 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 Virginia Living Museum 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Desert Botancial Garden 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skirball Cultural Center 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cresco Labs - Brookville 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wm T Spaeder Co Inc 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fazio Mechanical Services INC 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE TreeHouse Foods Lancaster, PA 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR FIVE BELOW INC 19,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital of University of Pennsylvania 13,423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Hospital 9,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Campus 9,129 FTE
NAT-TCR Wisconsin Plastic Products, Inc 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dominion Clemson, LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Village of Spring Grove 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Alaskan Movers 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riepen LLC 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE TMF Center 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sacramento Natural Food Co-op 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polartec Tennessee Manufacturing 214 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.