Botanical gardens · New York

The New York Botanical Garden

Bronx, NY · ~611 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.7
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The New York Botanical Garden runs at 506% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Botanical gardens workplace, earning a grade F.

The New York Botanical Garden: 15.7 TCR = 506% of Botanical gardens BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The New York Botanical Garden safety composite

The New York Botanical Garden scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−8.0

2022→2024

The New York Botanical Garden injury rate improved

The New York Botanical Garden's TCR fell 8.0 from 20.1 in 2022 to 12.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 20.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=20.1 · 2023=14.9 · 2024=12.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712130 · Bronx, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.7 · 506% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO Zoological Society o…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 196 inj
  • SIZE ~611 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Zoological Society of Sioux Falls (0.5 TCR gap)

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The New York Botanical Garden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The New York Botanical Garden averages 15.7 TCR (506% of the Botanical gardens BLS benchmark).

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

The New York Botanical Garden TCR series: 2022=20.1 · 2023=14.9 · 2024=12.1 · BLS 3.1

Where The New York Botanical Garden falls in its industry

174 Botanical gardens establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 18 Botanical gardens employers in New York.

The New York Botanical Garden (611 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 05001,0001,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate The New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden (611 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 6.8

The New York Botanical Garden has more employees than the Botanical gardens median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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 12.1 3.3 52 0 0
2023 14.9 3.5 64 0 0
2022 20.1 5.3 80 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712130 · NY · Bronx

174 Botanical gardens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 536 employers in Bronx, NY · 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 Zoological Society of Sioux Falls 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Maryland Zoological Society, Inc. 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coral World (V.I.), Inc 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR New York Aquarium 14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ace Endico Corporation Brewster 611 FTE
STATE-SIZE Johnson City 611 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clinton County Chapter NYSARC 611 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ortho Clinical Diagnostics - Building 313 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALDOR Bronx 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legends - New York Yankees 1,422 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronx Zoo 1,356 FTE
CITY-NEAR WCS - Bronx Zoo of New York 1,265 FTE
NAT-TCR PSL-Castlewoods Place 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fs-Via Christi Pitts 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lifeline Concord, LLC 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Crew One Productions - Memphis 15.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Milacron Afton 611 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Posada at Park Centre 611 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woody Springs 611 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2002 - Los Angeles 611 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. 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.