Historical museums · Washington

The Museum of Flight

Seattle, WA · ~180 workers · 7 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 Museum of Flight runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Historical museums workplace, earning a grade A.

The Museum of Flight: 1.0 TCR = 32% of Historical museums BLS 3.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Museum of Flight safety composite

The Museum of Flight scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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 Museum of Flight: 0.6 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

The Museum of Flight's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.6 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Seattle, WA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 32% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Chrysler Museum of Art
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chrysler Museum of Art (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Museum of Flight in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Museum of Flight averages 1.0 TCR (32% of the Historical museums BLS benchmark).

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

The Museum of Flight TCR series: 2017=0.6 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 3.1

Where The Museum of Flight falls in its industry

246 Historical 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 Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Historical museums employers in Washington.

The Museum of Flight (180 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 Museum of Flight
The Museum of Flight (180 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

The Museum of Flight has more employees than the Historical 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
2023 3.3 2.0 5 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.7 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2017 0.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · WA · Seattle

246 Historical museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, WA · 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 Chrysler Museum of Art 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Field Museum 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR McNay Art Museum 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Intermech Inc. 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Home Comfort Alliance, LLC 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Proctor/154 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The United States of America 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starz Entertainment 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW 11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR 091-Las Vegas/7th St 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TPC Group Houston 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaman Corporation 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Crossover @ Maryvale 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bellevue Ne Plant 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper Saint Joseph 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Massman Automation Design 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eac 6230 Virgina Paving Company 180 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.