Museums · Virginia

Virginia Living Museum

Newport News, VA · ~79 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

Virginia Living Museum runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Museums workplace, earning a grade F.

Virginia Living Museum: 6.8 TCR = 220% of Museums BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Virginia Living Museum safety composite

Virginia Living Museum scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

32/100

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
D 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−5.0

2022→2024

Virginia Living Museum injury rate improved

Virginia Living Museum's TCR fell 5.0 from 8.7 in 2022 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.7 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Newport News, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 220% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO The Franklin Institute
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Franklin Institute (0.0 TCR gap)

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Virginia Living Museum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Virginia Living Museum averages 6.8 TCR (220% of the Museums BLS benchmark).

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

Virginia Living Museum TCR series: 2022=8.7 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.1

Where Virginia Living Museum falls in its industry

246 Museums establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Museums employers in Virginia.

Virginia Living Museum (79 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 Virginia Living Museum
Virginia Living Museum (79 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Virginia Living 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 3.7 1.8 2 0 0
2023 8.2 1.6 4 1 0
2022 8.7 2.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · VA · Newport News

246 Museums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 330 employers in Newport News, VA · 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 The Franklin Institute 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 Spruance 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dumfries 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE ADI Construction of Virginia LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE FGG Isaac 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries 24,543 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center 2,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center-113 1,680 FTE
CITY-NEAR 12490 Jefferson Ave 1,503 FTE
NAT-TCR Truckee Donner Public Utility District 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Forreston Fire Protection District 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR RHBA Acquisitions LLC dba Red Head Brass, LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grocery Outlet of Lynden 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE TFC Poultry LLC 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brea, CA 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willow Ridge Lodge 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Irvine Access Floors Inc. 79 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.