Museums · Iowa

The Iowa Children's Museum

Coralville, IA · ~41 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Iowa Children's Museum runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Museums workplace, earning a grade D.

The Iowa Children's Museum: 3.9 TCR = 127% of Museums BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Iowa Children's Museum safety composite

The Iowa Children's Museum scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2017→2024

The Iowa Children's Museum injury rate improved

The Iowa Children's Museum's TCR fell 2.6 from 7.1 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.1 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Coralville, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 127% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Aldrich Contemporary…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Iowa Children's Museum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Iowa Children's Museum averages 3.9 TCR (127% of the Museums BLS benchmark).

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

The Iowa Children's Museum TCR series: 2017=7.1 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.1

Where The Iowa Children's Museum falls in its industry

246 Museums establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Museums employers in Iowa.

The Iowa Children's Museum (41 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Iowa Children's Museum
The Iowa Children's Museum (41 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

The Iowa Children's Museum has fewer employees than the 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 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 7.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · IA · Coralville

246 Museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 99 employers in Coralville, IA · 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 Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Muskegon County Museum 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Leonardo 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Worcester Art Museum 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Warehouse 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva-Dallas Center R&D 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Purelight Power of Des Moines 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE North West REC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR IDT Coralville 1710 1,144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins Inc. (Coralville) 751 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins - Coralville 725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. Corporate Headquarters 635 FTE
NAT-TCR 483018-Wilkes-Barre | PA | KBS-550 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Chris Craft 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St Mary Medical Center 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR East Greenbush Lodging Associates, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mabank ISD 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stephens Pipe & Steel LLC BALLENGER 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE HDC Child and Family 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glacier Valley Elementary School 41 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, 2022, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.